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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.

Ben Casnocha

I don’t want to be normal. I want to be something else.
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Normal Something Want
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 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’m just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.
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Big Dots Maps
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
I have a broad range of interests, so I’ll always be working on something.
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Broads Interest Range
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
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
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
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
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 really focused on three things in high school – my company, basketball and my school work.
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Basketball School Three
Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.
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Goal Limits Long
The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.
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Dumb People Smart

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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