"spend all your time on your single best idea"
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
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
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Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
I think this also why the Apple culture of secret works so well. On your most important values there can be no second chances. If I let you do it this once, then you'll do it again
you have to be a learning machine you have to be doing the work now he he
referenced many times that it takes a long time now but it makes you go faster later on but that you'll study something he would study like an American company for like 15 years it would take him 15 years to find the Asian counterpart Nick is telling us something very similar
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First part is Li Lu
Is this what I've been doing? I've been preparing and learning constantly to get to this point. And that's the long term mindset combined with a single idea and the memory as a service. I want you to encourage and explore but also to learn so that when you're ready you'll have done all the preparation you need to seize the opportunity.
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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ick says if it's a single best thought you have ever had in your life it needs to dominate everything because you're not going to get many insights like that and
if it's your single best Insight your single best idea then obviously it's what you should spending all your time on
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
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
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why is this list not the same as the current Nomad portfolio
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
This makes me think about what I'm interested in and what I subscribed to and spend my time listening to do and doing.
And cutting down everything until I can focus on what matters.
2. Don’t divide your attention: focusing on one thing yields increasing returns for each unit of effort.
At a micro level, an extra hour of focus on the current project has a much higher return than an hour on something new, or worse, 5 minutes each on 12 new things. Before you ever do something new, you should understand the opportunity cost vs.
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Peter Thiel
This relates to nick sleep thought of i've got your single best idea than it's obviously where you should be spending all your time on