Often smart people have more trouble learning than otherwise because the more book smart you are, the more not knowing something or being wrong, it's not just not knowing something or being wrong, it's like an assault on your identity.
How embracing your emotions will accelerate your career | Joe Hudson (Art of Accomplishment)
August 08, 2024
Featuring: Drew Houston (Co-founder & CEO, Dropbox)
7 quotes · 7 insights
Watch Full EpisodeBeginner's mind beats expert's mind
Your nervous system is your organization's operating system
Both your strengths and your weaknesses are massively amplified and a lot of blind spots in your personality can become huge cultural dysfunctions in the company.
CEO growth must outpace company growth
You have to figure out how to keep your personal growth curve ahead of the company's growth curve.
Optimize for learning velocity, not job titles
Always be working back from, in one year from now, what will I wish I had been learning today? Two years, five years?
Big bets require accepting failure as the price of breakthrough success
Most of the time CEOs want options. They want to hedge their bets, but what you really want to do in these strategic inflection points is go all in one thing.
Burnout whispers before it screams
I'm working really hard. I'm in meetings all day, emails all night. Is this it? I'm very busy, but I'm not really productive. I'm not putting in a lot of creative input.
Build what frustrates you daily
My playbook as an entrepreneur is to get really frustrated by something, and then try to solve that personally.