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August 6, 2016 - Comments Off on Commonplace #0012

Commonplace #0012

Strong ideas weakly held.” Someone with strong ideas should know the topics well and have researched all side of the issues. By keeping this strong views weakly held the person can adapt as new information and idea arrive.

The more I learned in life, the more people have wanted to pay me to learn more so I can help them solve problems and find new opportunities.

August 6, 2016 - Comments Off on Commonplace #0011

Commonplace #0011

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Let chaos reign, then rein chaos.

There are two options: adapt or die.

Struggle Is Good: Never say “I can’t take it anymore.” Say “Bring it on!”

August 6, 2016 - Comments Off on Commonplace #0010

Commonplace #0010

Learn to sell. In business you’re always selling – to your prospects, investors, and employees. To be the best salesperson, put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you’re selling. Don’t sell your product. Solve their problems.

Your customers can tell you the things that are broken and how they want to be made happy. Listen to them. Make them happy. But don’t rely on them to create the future road map for your product or service. That’s your job.

August 6, 2016 - Comments Off on Commonplace #0009

Commonplace #0009

Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80- to 100-hour weeks every week. This improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing, you know that you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.

August 6, 2016 - Comments Off on Commonplace #0008

Commonplace #0008

Focus on finding big problems.

If you cannot write it down, you have not thought it through.

Focus on highly tangible, actionable bits of information over abstractions.

Risk come from not knowing what you are doing

August 6, 2016 - Comments Off on Commonplace #0007

Commonplace #0007

There are no hard problems, only problems that are hard to a certain level of intelligence. Move the smallest bit upwards [in level of intelligence], and some problems will suddenly move from “impossible” to “obvious.” Move a substantial degree upwards, and all of them will become obvious.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

In most cases, a story succeeds when you connect a smaller idea or action to something bigger — a purpose, a movement, an emotion. This is how you get people to follow you on a journey.

August 6, 2016 - Comments Off on Commonplace #0006

Commonplace #0006

Strong opinions, Loosely held.

Be lesser, Do more. Say little, Do much.

As a man thinketh, so his heart will be.

We do not rise to the levels of our hopes. We fall to the levels of our training.

August 6, 2016 - Comments Off on Commonplace #0003

Commonplace #0003

You’re Either Great, Or You Don’t Exist.

Take Risks. Make Mistakes.

Don't be sorry. Be better.