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Choose Your Table Wisely
Constantly be searching for the asymmetric bets both in life and businessAlways be asking – “What can I do that has little downside but if it works out, can have a huge payoff?”
Tony Sheng • #07 - Erik Torenberg thinks we should build career moats
sari added
If you want to be at a particular table, do what you need to get there. If you can’t get to where you want to be, build a table.
Navin Goyal • Physician Underdog: Leveraging the underdog mentality to move forward
So next time you feel envious about someone, consider asking yourself:
- Is this my game to play? (does anyone need more carousels about Patagonia's strategy?)
- What's the opportunity cost of playing it? (more time doing X means less time doing Y)
- Why should i play it like they are? (play at the cross-section of what works for the market and your mind)
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Johanna and added
"Big wins tend to be accompanied by some combination of bigger decisions, more uncertainty, and greater risk.
If you want to play at a higher level, you need to be comfortable with greater swings of highs and lows: mentally, emotionally, financially.
You can avoid the swings, but you might be forced to play at a lower level."
If you want to play at a higher level, you need to be comfortable with greater swings of highs and lows: mentally, emotionally, financially.
You can avoid the swings, but you might be forced to play at a lower level."
3-2-1: Two rules for life, the power of reputation, and the peace of wild things
Natalie Audelo added
The bigger question of what to do with your life is one of these problems with a hard core. There are important problems at the center, which tend to be hard, and less important, easier ones at the edges. So as well as the small, daily adjustments involved in working on a specific problem, you'll occasionally have to make big, lifetime-scale adjust
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Shagun Tyagi added
Thus my first piece of advice: if you have the choice between multiple jobs, all else being equal, pick the one where you are able to show what you've worked on.
kalzumeus • Don't End The Week With Nothing
Keely Adler added