I think the biggest competitive advantage in business—either for a company or for an individual’s career—is long-term thinking with a broad view of how different systems in the world are going to come together. One of the notable aspects of compound growth is that the furthest out years are the most important. In a world where almost no one takes a... See more

The CEO of Brookfield says the best way to win in AI, energy, and infrastructure is to ignore the noise and focus on what always works. In only his second podcast ever, Bruce Flatt explains how discipline—not disruption—wins trillion-dollar markets. Because when everything changes, the real edge is knowing what doesn’t.

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What I Wish Someone Had Told Me

1. Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.


2. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry about what people think in the short t

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Anything that I’ve ever been successful at has taken at least 10 years of hard work and anonymous toil to get to that place. I’m an ultra-endurance athlete as an athlete, but also in the way that I’ve approached doing anything in life. There are no shortcuts to mastery. Although there are tips and tricks that people do to accelerate growth, I’m not... See more

The most important advice is to figure out as early as possible how you can be the most exceptional and extraordinary at what you want to be. To paraphrase Jerry Garcia, the goal is to be not just the best at what you do, but the only one that does what you do. It'll take some time to figure out how to define yourself in that way. It's a little bit... See more