📝 Notes from @naval & @KapilGuptaMD's talk "The truth about hard work"
🎙 startupboy.com/2018/12/25/the…
🎙 startupboy.com/2018/12/25/the…
Hard work is a prescription. It's done out of anxiety and fear.
One of the common things you'll hear is that "If you're not working hard, then the next guy is." It becomes a game.
The thing you're really seeking gets replaced by The Game of Hard Work.
One of the common things you'll hear is that "If you're not working hard, then the next guy is." It becomes a game.
The thing you're really seeking gets replaced by The Game of Hard Work.
Hard work alone not enough to find product-market fit.
What you choose to work on, who you choose to work with and how badly you want it—which is more than just work hard—are more important than the raw hours you put in.
What you choose to work on, who you choose to work with and how badly you want it—which is more than just work hard—are more important than the raw hours you put in.
People should figure out what feels like play to you but looks like work to others.
That's your superpower. That's where you outperform everybody.
That's your superpower. That's where you outperform everybody.
Nature doesn't work hard. 🍃
If you want to do it, it's not work.
The key element of hard work—which an elephant in the room—is it is considered a door prize, a preparing of the bed of failure.
Hard work is done to have an excuse for the mind when it comes attacking, "How come you didn't make it?" "I have worked hard," becomes the answer.
Hard work is done to have an excuse for the mind when it comes attacking, "How come you didn't make it?" "I have worked hard," becomes the answer.
Talent matters so much more than hard work.
There is a truth to the fact that humans tend to do many things in order to satisfy those watching them and satisfy the idea of having tried and romantically failed.
In modern society, one of the reasons we have more of unhappy people is because of the myth that "Everyone can be anything."
A lot of life is searching for what it is you're uniquely good at and when and where to apply that thing.
A lot of life is searching for what it is you're uniquely good at and when and where to apply that thing.
People don't fail because they don't work hard enough. People fail because they didn't really want it.
Companies don't fail when they run out of cash.
They fail when they run out of energy.
They fail when they run out of energy.
"A man who chases two rabbits catches none."
If you want to build a ship and hit the high seas, don't gather the men, giving orders, chopping the wood, building a fire, etc.
Teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Management is telling people what to do.
Leadership is getting them to want to do it themselves.
Leadership is getting them to want to do it themselves.
We all acknowledge 10x performers exist, yet we do not compensate them at those levels.
"Real truth is hard to speak because it hurts the sensibilities of equality, the world ought to work and morality.
It is better to acknowledge how the world actually works and figure out how you want to change it as opposed to living with your head in the sand."
It is better to acknowledge how the world actually works and figure out how you want to change it as opposed to living with your head in the sand."
