- If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.
- Physics is a good framework for thinking. … Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
- The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
- It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
- Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
- You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.
- If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
- My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
- When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world. Now I am.
- I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
- I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.
- Life is too short for long-term grudges.
- Don’t be afraid of new arenas.
- I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
- I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
- Being an Entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death
- I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
- ..on his favorite book when he was a teen, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: It taught me that the tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but that once you do that, the rest is really easy.
- I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
- Make sure you are motivated by the ultimate mission of whatever you’re working on, and you understand the connection from that all the way down to the specific work you’re doing at any given moment.
- Focus on getting better at whatever it is you’re doing. There is a reason why the most addictive RPGs formalize the “leveling up” dynamic and it’s amazing how much tedious work this can motivate.
- Enjoy the day-to-day work itself. Don’t expect to enjoy everything, but it can really help your motivation to have a job where you enjoy a significant part of the work intrinsically.
- Take care of yourself. Make sure you look out for your psychological needs and get enough rest, take time to relax with friends, get exercise or whatever else you need to be able to focus on work without the rest of your life dragging you down.
- Have an internal sense of what’s worthwhile and don’t fool yourself. Some people think of “staying focused” as an issue of psychological willpower. In my experience one of the biggest reasons people don’t focus is that they don’t have a strong sense of the value of all the different things they could do. They will get lured in by things that seem exciting or things that will get them some kind of short term social status but have little to do with what actually matters in the long term. It is much easier to avoid this stuff if you have a good sense of its value.
- The ideal career path idea will not get you to the right place. The idea of tapping into who you are, the essence, will. –Ivy Ross