Jordan Bester

- According to Young, innovative ideas happen when you develop new combinations of old elements.

 "Nearly all great ideas follow a similar creative process and this article explains how this process works." - James Clear

" You want to look for a burning pain that’s so bad, customers will literally try anything to solve it."

- One way to improve reading comprehension is to choose books you can immediately apply. Putting the ideas you read into action is one of the best ways to secure them in your mind. Practice is a very effective form of learning.

- Keep all the elements of your event experience in one place. “If you use multiple platforms that people have to find links for and log into, you’ll quickly lose engagement,” he says.

That, not exploiting people, is the defining quality of people who become billionaires from starting companies. So that's what YC looks for in founders: authenticity. 

- One reader named Caelan wrote, “I quit smoking by assigning my cheat days progressively farther in the future. I never quit “for good,” I only quit until my next cheat day. This helped with cravings, because the choice wasn’t between “right now” or “never,” it was “right now” or “later.”

- Being a pro is about having the discipline to commit to what is important to you instead of merely saying something is important to you.