Sometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.
BEN CASNOCHASometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.
BEN CASNOCHAI don’t want to be normal. I want to be something else.
BEN CASNOCHAI’m just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.
BEN CASNOCHATaking 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.
BEN CASNOCHAExpose yourself to as much randomness as possible.
BEN CASNOCHASimilarly, someone with lots of skill but a weak network won’t realize his or her fullest potential. So, you need both.
BEN CASNOCHAI really focused on three things in high school – my company, basketball and my school work.
BEN CASNOCHAI 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.
BEN CASNOCHAI 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.
BEN CASNOCHAI’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.
BEN CASNOCHAThe internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.
BEN CASNOCHAExpose 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.
BEN CASNOCHAIt 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 CASNOCHARule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.
BEN CASNOCHAI have a broad range of interests, so I’ll always be working on something.
BEN CASNOCHAI’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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