the people who can start things will be the major beneficiaries in the coming years. because the barrier is no longer knowledge or skills, it’s courage.
the people who can start things will be the major beneficiaries in the coming years. because the barrier is no longer knowledge or skills, it’s courage.
In this new economy, three groups will have a particular advantage: those who can work well and creatively with intelligent machines, those who are the best at what they do, and those with access to capital.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
In this new economy, three groups will have a particular advantage: those who can work well and creatively with intelligent machines, those who are the best at what they do, and those with access to capital.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Those who get ahead in this century will dance with the great unknown and find danger, rather than comfort, in the status quo.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
There’s an abundance of smart, compassionate people with ideas worth finishing and ample know-how who can’t get momentum on those ideas for the simple reason that their courage is lacking. Courage is more important than talent when it comes to finishing what matters most, for courageous action can build talent, but fear keeps us stuck in the confin
... See moreCharlie Gilkey • Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
3.Just starting something, as imperfect as it may be, already makes you better than the vast majority of people, who never start anything.
Elysha Dicks • Someday Is Today
Optimists move the world forward. There’s something deeply optimistic about entrepreneurship, the idea that it’s possible to create things that have never existed, and find a market for them.
Packy McCormick • Optimism
COURAGE, LIKE CHARACTER, CAN BE DEVELOPED
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
The solopreneur evangelists tell us that these practicalities will eventually fall into place if you just do good work. The logic of a thousand true fans also supports this view. But the leaders in the passion economy show us that it takes a certain kind of creativity, a kind of transmutable enthusiasm across genres to make these projects work beyo... See more