Business

The first step to learning something new is leaning into what you don’t know, instead of focusing on what you do know. – Bill Gates

What should I do with my life” is a terrible question. Excellence is the next five minutes. Improvement is the next five minutes. Happiness is the next five minutes. This doesn’t mean you ignore planning, just remember that big beyond belief things are accomplished when you deconstruct them into the smallest possible pieces and focus on each bit one step at a time. – Tim Ferriss

People will tell you along your career path to “follow your passion”.  The problem with that is what you love may not be what you’re best at or where you have the best chance of success.  – Dad

Money follows success, not the other way around. – Mat Ishbia

How To Be Successful: 13 Powerful Rules For Business

1. Improve Exponentially – compound yourself; don’t get caught scaling linearly.
2. Have Almost Too Much Self-Belief – persevere because you know you’re onto something.
3. Learn to Think Independently – think from first principles and have people that challenge you.
4. Get Good at “Sales” – you have to convince others your ideas are good.
5. Make it Easy to Take Risks – keep your life cheap and flexible for as long as you can.
6. Focus – spend more time thinking what the focus should be first!
7. Work Hard – work stamina – a big predictor of success – put in the hours.
8. Be Bold – boring companies don’t spark the imagination.
9. Be Wilful – ask for what you want.
10. Be Hard to Compete With – build up leverage; be different.
11. Build a Network – of people who are “a force of nature.
12. You Get Rich by Owning Things – equity, IP, real estate, etc.
13. Be Internally Driven – be obsessed, extreme, and perform!
    – Sam Altman

You don’t need to know all the answers, but you do need to know where to find them. – David Abeles