Commercial Behaviours
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Commercial Behaviours
If, for whatever reason, the Beatles weren’t popular, and you discovered them, would they become one of your favourite bands that you would tell all of your friends about? If not, then work on your self-confidence and calibration until you would.
It is very difficult, highly inefficient, and non-meritorious to get ahead in life on any conventional path — there are too many people pursuing the same thing, including most people evaluating you being phonies themselves who can’t recognize talent. In contrast, pursuing small niches is much easier to get ahead in — if the whole niche ends up grow... See more
@s8mb You don’t need a plan when growth is the default mindset.
“A simple recipe for finding opportunities:
It’s hard for a warm and pleasant person who is asking a lot of questions and engaging in their industry daily to not come across interesting opportunities.”
- Be pleasant
- Ask questions
- Engage daily
It’s hard for a warm and pleasant person who is asking a lot of questions and engaging in their industry daily to not come across interesting opportunities.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: Two ways to grow, how to criticize, and a simple recipe for finding good opportunities
“I don't wait for things to cross my desk. I go out and look for them. I made 250 calls a day."
The idea that “fortune favors the bold” is not an observation about the nature of divine agency, it is an observation about the interaction of active human agency, luck, and unintended consequences. Fortune appears to favor the bold because the bold are making their own luck by acting in obvious ways in response to obvious imperatives. Failure of n
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