founder's mentality
insights, articles, musings and resources to help founders and builders cultivate a healthy mindset and get unstuck
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founder's mentality
What people need most is confidence, not advice
(reminds me ot Tyler Cowen’s high value of raising people’s aspirations)
We were driven by creativity and we were unprofessional.– Skoging
What makes a successful businesswoman? Is it talent? Well, perhaps, although I've known many enormously successful people who were not-gifted in any outstanding way, not blessed with particular talent. Is it, then, intelligence? Certainly, intelligence helps, but it's not necessarily education or the kind of intellectual reasoning needed to
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Being a founder requires constant calibration between arrogance and humility, optimism and pessimism. You need the arrogance to believe that you have something important to say, but the humility to know most people won’t care. You need the optimism to convince yourself and others (employees, investors, customers) to believe in you. But you need... See more
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
48 smart things Sam Walton wrote in his autobiography:
1. It never occurred to me that I might lose. It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
2. We just got after it and *stayed* after... See more