1.
“Great opportunities
never have ‘great opportunity’ in the subject line.” Whether you’re looking for
the best new job, client, partner, or new business opportunity, it is unlikely
to lure you when you first see it. In fact, the best opportunities may not even
catch your attention at first. More often than not, great opportunities look
unattractive on the surface. What makes an opportunity great is upside. If the
potential upside were explicitly clear, the opportunity would have already been
taken. (P. 459)
2.
Join a team not for
what it is, but for what you think you can help it become. Be a “founder” in
the sense that you’re willing to make something rather than just join
something. (P. 460)
3.
You must seize
opportunities when they present themselves, not when they are convenient or
obvious. The only way to cultivate your own luck is to be more flexible (you’ll
need to give up something for the right opportunity), humble (timing is out of
your control), and gracious (when you see it, seize it!). Life’s greatest
opportunities run on their own schedule, not yours. (P. 460)
4.
“Deep work” for me
means no interruptions or jumping around casually between tasks. Deep work is
the three-plus-hour focus-on-one-problem (P. 461)
5.
Every step in your
early career must get you incrementally closer to whatever genuinely interests
you. The most promising path to success is pursuing genuine interests and
setting yourself up for the circumstantial relationships, collaborations, and
experiences that will make all the difference in your life. A labor of love
always pays off, just not how and when you expect. Choose opportunities based
on the quality of people you will get to work with. (P. 461)
6.
While we idolize the
experts in our industry, we often forget that industries are often transformed
by neophytes. The boldest transformations, like Uber disrupting transportation
or Airbnb disrupting hospitality, are led by outsiders. Perhaps the playbook to
change an industry is to be naive enough at the start to question basic
assumptions and then stay alive long enough to employ skills that are unique
and advantageous in the space you seek to change. Perhaps naive excitement and
pragmatic expertise are equally important traits at different times. (P. 461)
7.
“don’t ask customers
what they want, figure out what they need.” (P. 462)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Belsky
Reference
Ferriss, Timothy.
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World (P. 459).
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
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