Building a Business

It’s particularly tough because it rarely feels like you’re chasing field mice in the moment. You’re busy. You’re active. And in a culture that celebrates busyness as success, it‘s easy to convince yourself that you’re making progress.

But busy doesn’t mean effective. Motion isn’t momentum. A rocking horse moves all day, but never goes anywhere.

So,

We do hard things because nothing feels better than a hard-earned win. Nothing. The pain. The struggle. The resilience. And then, the reward. The thrill of knowing that you paid the cost of entry for the thing you wanted to achieve. Hard things are good for the soul.

We're wired for novelty, but life rewards repetition.

Good ideas are rare. When you find something that works, you've found gold. But instead of mining it, we go looking for more gold.

We'd rather have ten ideas that might work than one that does.

"Intelligence isn't just about what you know. It is also the ability to avoid being your own bottleneck.

·         If you lack the skills, be willing to look foolish while you learn them.

·         If you lack the connections, be courageous enough to reach out and build them.

·         If you feel uncertain, be bold enough to figure it out along the

“There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

"The internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet."

"Distance and time are the two wedges that separate relationships.

When it really matters, get in the car (or on the plane) and meet them face-to-face.

When you want it to last, don't wait to talk about it. Solve it now before the gap becomes too wide."

"It's hard to build momentum if you keep dividing your attention."

We avoid doing simple things that work because they don't make us look smart.

Smart people feel stupid doing simple things, so we invent complicated alternatives that accomplish less but feel more intellectually satisfying.

Meanwhile, the people who dominate their fields are doing embarrassingly basic things, but they do them better than everyone