Be optimistic, be positive. It’s important. Optimists actually do better in the long run.
Wisdom is understanding the long-term consequences of your actions.
- questions nearly everything
- can think from first principles
- tests things well
- is good at not fooling himself
- changes his mind regularly
- laughs a lot
- thinks holistically
- thinks long-term
- doesn’t take himself too goddamn seriously
Quotes
the business world has many people playing zero sum games and a few playing positive sum games searching for each other in the crowd.
Be a maker who makes something interesting people want. Show your craft, practice your craft, and the right people will eventually find you.
You have to put in the time, but the judgement is more important. The direction you’re heading in matters more than how fast you move, especially with leverage.
if you can’t decide, then the answer is no.
First, you know it. Then, you understand it. Then, you can explain it. Then, you can feel it. Finally, you are it.
how to get lucky
- hope luck finds you
- hustle until you stumble into it
- prepare the mind the be sensitive to chances others miss
- become the best at what you do. Refine what you do until this is true. Opportunity will seek you out. Luck becomes your destiny.