Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Pushing limits leads to improvement in professional work.
- In plain terms
- Try impossible things to get better.
- What can you take from it?
- Challenge yourself to improve.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is struggle necessary for growth?
- What impossible task will you try?
Another view
Not all impossible tasks lead to improvement.
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