It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
BEN CASNOCHAThe internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.
More Ben Casnocha Quotes
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I don’t want to be normal. I want to be something else.
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Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.
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I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?
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I’m just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.
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I suspect the debate over the ethics will be much more heated than the debate over steroids in baseball or any other sport, where the use is limited to a select group of freakish athletes.
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Sometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.
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Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
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If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.
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I really focused on three things in high school – my company, basketball and my school work.
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Similarly, someone with lots of skill but a weak network won’t realize his or her fullest potential. So, you need both.
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The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.
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Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.
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Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.
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If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, you’re not accomplishing very much.
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I have a broad range of interests, so I’ll always be working on something.
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