Here’s two quotes your dad has likely said to you. “Measure twice and cut once,” or “a job worth doing is worth doing right.” And for the most part these have never applied to me or is it I have never applied them to me? Here’s one that I liked though, especially in college. “I mean sure, hard work pays off over time, but laziness, well laziness pays off right now!” I can picture my college roommate being interviewed or I guess it would be more like interrogated, maybe even cross-examined, “how would you describe Derek, Mr. Ivancevic?” “Derek is a right-now” kind of guy.

Hey, I’m 40 and I’m not going to argue with him. I think eventually as you get older you stop trying to change all of your defects and just start to embrace them. For example, I can get a ton done. Like, significantly more than the average person playing in the same arena a ...