Another key is to remind yourself that “make an extraordinary effort” does not mainly mean “work around the clock” or to the point of exhaustion. Working on the point of exhaustion both is relatively common and mostly unhelpful, as you note. It’s more about what you do to succeed, being willing to pay social costs and risk embarrassment and failure, get creative, question beliefs, focusing on what will actually work and especially going above and beyond in the moment than on making sure you’ve expended X amount of time (or money, or energy).
I think of extraordinary effort more as a spike in effort, as entering a mode where you go above and beyond in the moment, where moment is typically minutes to hours at a time, rather than a sustained drive.
Another key is to remind yourself that “make an extraordinary effort” does not mainly mean “work around the clock” or to the point of exhaustion. Working on the point of exhaustion both is relatively common and mostly unhelpful, as you note. It’s more about what you do to succeed, being willing to pay social costs and risk embarrassment and failure, get creative, question beliefs, focusing on what will actually work and especially going above and beyond in the moment than on making sure you’ve expended X amount of time (or money, or energy).
I think of extraordinary effort more as a spike in effort, as entering a mode where you go above and beyond in the moment, where moment is typically minutes to hours at a time, rather than a sustained drive.