Loading video...

Video Failed to Load

Go Home

Former Princeton professor Shilo Brooks would start class by telling his students they were boring: “Y’all are boring as hell . . .and the only way you become interesting is to have ideas that are not your own boring, ignorant ideas. What that means is that you need to...

75,545 views • 9 months ago •via X (Twitter)

0 Comments

No comments available

Comments from the original post will appear here

Related Videos

Sam Altman on what startup ideas actually work “What you are looking for are good ideas that look like bad ideas. These are things that you can articulate why there’s a reason this is going to be huge that most of the world is missing. Unfortunately, what most people end up chasing are bad ideas that look like good ideas. I would say this is where 90% of all angel capital in the startup ecosystem goes.” Sam elaborates on why founders and investors alike make this mistake so frequently: “The one common way that people make this mistake (pursuing bad ideas that look like good ideas) is chasing the thing that worked two years ago. If you ever find yourself doing that, be very skeptical. If you find yourself tempted to invest in a company where there are hundreds of others working on the same thing, be very skeptical. If you find yourself tempted to invest in something that the founders work super hard to convince you is not going to be a long-term commodity, be very skeptical. It is absolutely true that you want something that has real pricing power that comes from a network effect, a moat, a barrier to entry, whatever it is. But when that’s true, it’s so obvious. So the more a founder tries to sell you on why they’re super differentiated and why they have this long-term competitive advantage, the more skeptical you should be.” He continues: “I have found this framework of asking, ‘Is this a good idea that seems bad? Or is this a bad idea that seems good?’ has helped me make good decisions a bunch of times.” Source: Y Combinator (Mar 2018)

Startup Archive

14,506 views • 1 month ago

Tony Robbins would always ask is it Your Mother or Your Father’s? And he’ll follow that up with: “Who did you have to be to receive mom or dad’s love as a kid?” And then people sit there. Some people are like… and then they have an answer, or they pop—start crying. Why is that question so powerful? One of the reasons is because “who you had to be to receive your mom and dad’s love as a kid” becomes a role that many people take on for their whole entire life. If you had to be a people-pleaser to make your dad or mom happy, you might be an adult that’s pleasing everyone, feeling drained, and carrying the burden of that. And when you get to that core, you realize that the way you relate to mom and dad becomes the standard—the lens through which you believe you relate to everybody else. So if there’s unresolved energy from childhood where you believe that, as a kid, you had to be a certain way to receive mom or dad’s love. You may assume that that’s how you need to be in order to receive anyone else’s love. So one of the most powerful things to realize is that when you begin to connect to that inner child part of you—the part of you that may have not felt seen, heard, soothed, or nurtured… Or that believed your worth was connected to what you do… you can then realize that the role you may have taken on as a child is not who you really are. It’s just a strategy to feel connected. And when you begin to see, hear, soothe, and nurture that inner child… You may then realize that you no longer have to live in that role—and that then you become free. via Aaron Doughty

Larry Conger 🇺🇸

97,933 views • 5 months ago