Personal mastery

Too often people assume that you should only focus on one thing in your life, period. But that’s not what this strategy is about. It’s about being smart about what you pursue. Yes, you can achieve a lot of things…But just not at the same time.

You can’t build a career, get in shape, compete in marathons, write a book, invest in a business, get kids,... See more

trust hierarchy to build relationships

Build trust with people before you need to have a difficult conversation with them.

There’s a hierarchy of steps that you can follow to build trust with anyone in your company. From the easiest to the hardest, these steps are:

Listen well

Show you care about them as a person

Seek to understand their point of view

En... See more

“Focus is a force multiplier on work.

Almost everyone I’ve ever met would be well-served by spending more time thinking about what to focus on. It is much more important to work on the right thing than it is to work many hours. Most people waste most of their time on stuff that doesn’t matter.

Once you have figured out what to do, be unstoppable ab... See more

pitch framework.

Number one, you start by looking forward

and lead with your destination.

Number two, then you go to your backstory.

And number three, you round it all out for me

by connecting the dots and bringing it all together.

And the beauty of this strategy

is that you know, and you will practice,

and you will wrestle with your destination.

Y... See more

- Back in the day, when I was interviewing on Wall Street,

there was a thing called a Superday,

which meant you had made it to the final rounds.

And so I went downtown New York City for my Superday,

where I had 10 two-on-one interviews back-to-back,

a long and grueling day,

but given my skillset, I actually had fun doing it.

And I left that evening... See more

Find the people you consider true practitioners, and study their work. 

Watch and learn. Learning from the greats can be done from a distance and may not include a memorable anecdote or pithy saying. Ho’s biggest lessons came from observing the habits of practitioners like Rock and Lucas, not via a structured mentorship or dramatic episode. It’s by ... See more

What has been your biggest mistake, what was the lesson learned from it?

Originally Answered: What has been your biggest mistake and the lesson learned from it?

The general class of mistake has been to focus on the wrong things.

I generally let myself get a little bit too overcommitted, which causes me to not spend enough time thinking about what I s... See more

“What’s preventing you from achieving your ten-year goals inside of six months?” — Peter Thiel

What are the real obstacles that are preventing you?

Don’t arbitrarily try to achieve goals in predetermined time frames.

Compress your timelines.

In six months, you'll be thanking yourself.

Writing increases your rate of revelation. This is true irrespective of the subject because writing is a process of reflection, assertion, and iteration.