Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.
— Jean Piaget
— Jean Piaget
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“Do you want to do intellectual work? Begin by creating within you a zone of silence, a habit of recollection, a will to renunciation and detachment which puts you entirely at the disposal of the work; acquire the state of soul unburdened by desire and self-will which is the state of grace of the intellectual worker.”
“One achieves what one can, and we need to judge our own capacity so as not on the one hand to underestimate it, or, inversely, not to exceed in the direction of pretentiousness and vain conceit. Whence comes this self-judgement, if not from a steady glance at the impersonally true, and from submission to its verdict, even if it cost us an effort or a secret disappointment?”
“One achieves what one can, and we need to judge our own capacity so as not on the one hand to underestimate it, or, inversely, not to exceed in the direction of pretentiousness and vain conceit. Whence comes this self-judgement, if not from a steady glance at the impersonally true, and from submission to its verdict, even if it cost us an effort or a secret disappointment?”
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Systems > Goals
Goals are for people who care about winning once.
Systems are for people who care about winning repeatedly.
Goals are for people who care about winning once.
Systems are for people who care about winning repeatedly.
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If there is a single key to success, it is the trait of being able to make things happen in the world—willfulness, determination, execution focus, not giving up when you hit a roadblock, the ability to solve any problem that comes your way, and self-belief. — Sam Altman /2020/
This book might be the closest thing to a repeatable framework.
Tries to answer How do we create more hyper-growth companies & what were the top companies really like at the earliest days?
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Tries to answer How do we create more hyper-growth companies & what were the top companies really like at the earliest days?
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