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Ben Casnocha

Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.
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Goal Limits Long
Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
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Distinction Sometimes Teenager
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
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
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 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
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
Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.
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Expose Possible Random
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
Sometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.
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Different Path Sometimes
Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.
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Before Skeptical Thing Thumbs
I’m just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.
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Big Dots Maps
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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Hearing Odds Writing
One theme that fascinates me is cognitive enhancement. It seems only a matter of time until we live in a world where steroids for the brain are readily available to all. And once we come to grips with that reality,
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Athlete Baseball Sports
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

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