"spend all your time on your single best idea"
When you see the world
As devoid of something
Only you can bring to life
You create magic
And if you fail,
You can still take comfort
In knowing you attempted
the impossible
Not the easy
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I got life changing advice last week.
He just sold his company and got invited for a talk. Was asked tons of audience questions on business strategies, getting acquired etc
His reply was “The best advice I can give you is to answer these two questions for yourself everyday and take action... See more
What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.
Andrea Zittel • Andrea Zittel, "These Things I Know for Sure"
people think they want choices. but they prefer good defaults.
Consistency trumps everything.
Utsav Mamoria
I can tell you that for renewal, a tough-minded optimism is best. The future is not shaped by people who don't really believe in the future. Men and women of vitality have always been prepared to bet their futures, even their lives, on ventures of unknown outcome.
pbs.org • John Gardner : Education and Excellence
For me, the ability to concentrate, you know, to get fascinated with something and really dig into it, which as I got older I could choose what I concentrated on. And when I was in high school, I was okay at it, but I remember being down in my room thinking, "Okay, I'm going to work on my homework and do really well this year." But then there were
... See moreCHM Live | Bill Gates and Patrick Collison: In Conversation at CHM
However, until I got into my 30s, my mindset was that there were all sorts of other wonderful things going on. I'd love to be polymathic; I was reading about the latest in many different sciences, but I was going to focus on Microsoft. You know, so for my 20s, I was monomaniacal. I did not read broadly. I definitely intimidated my competitors. My
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going to focus on Microsoft and you know so for my 20s I was monomaniacal I did not read broadly