Franceschetti: Long-term consistency matters more than daily perfection
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Matteo Franceschetti is the co-founder and CEO of Eight Sleep. In a conversation about discipline and internal pressure, he discusses his mindset on sustaining high performance.
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“You shouldn't be perfect every day. This is something I learned from a video of Tom Brady, but what you want is the consistency. It's less about cheating one day or another day, but if you zoom out and you look at how you manage your things, are you consistently enough in all these different dimensions? And it's less about one day or two days. It's more really look at the year, at the month, at the years, and can you sustain that? That to me is more important than anything else”
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