Author-entrepreneur David Kidder gave Inc. a definition of success that we can all act upon:
(Success is) when you have discovered your innate gift or proprietary contribution to the world and you are spending all your time in that strength and almost none of your time in your area of weakness.
Kidder, who wrote The Startup Playbook--which surveys the patterns of success of Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, and other über-successful folk--has himself founded three companies, including enterprise accelerator Bionic. His definition supplies us with a (perhaps idealized) compass for the way we schedule: If the task plays to our strengths, we'll go after it; if we're playing to our weaknesses, send it elsewhere.
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