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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 Casnocha

Sometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.
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Different Path Sometimes
Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
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Distinction Sometimes Teenager
Taking on short term risk can involve switching jobs, joining new groups / associations in the area, launching a personal blog, running an experiment within your existing job. These are some practical ways to inject volatility into your life, and thus some risk.
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Risk Running Term
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.
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Class School Years
I’ve always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.
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Diary Entrepreneur Writing
I’m just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.
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Big Dots Maps
Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.
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Before Skeptical Thing Thumbs
The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.
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Dumb People Smart
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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Book Reading Talking
I to the We means that both the individual’s effort and the power of the network matter, and they work in tandem. Someone with no skill won’t get very far, no matter how strong the network.
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Effort Mean Strong
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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Debate Group Limited Other
I have a broad range of interests, so I’ll always be working on something.
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Broads Interest Range
I really focused on three things in high school – my company, basketball and my school work.
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Basketball School Three
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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Association Group Someone
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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Argument Ideas Metaphor
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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Accomplish Citing Decrease

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.

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