New essay: Conviction https://t.co/oBUm2HYwd2
I've tried it all — walks, deadlines, formulas, fasting, thieving, reading old ads, sprinting through the park, cafes with no wi-fi, foyers with Coca-Cola. Here's the only thing I've worked out.
Big ideas are less about creativity and more about conviction.
In fact, I think your conviction in an idea is more important than the idea its
... See moreNot money.
Not intelligence.
Not access.
Conviction.
I’ve met a lot of people who are very intelligent and have an awesome (in the literal sense) arsenal of skills and advantages at their disposal.
But that doesn’t make them dangerous, because they usually don’t know where to go with all of this. (In fact,