How To Be Successful
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― Helen Keller
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📚 3 Good Recommendations
How To Be Successful
by Sam Altman (14 mins)
Summary: Success results from both hard work and luck; people often underestimate luck’s role due to egocentric bias and vividly recalling their own efforts, not external factors.
Ideal for: Professionals, students, entrepreneurs, and anyone reflecting on career or life success.
Why It’s Worth Your Time: It highlights the importance of recognizing luck to foster gratitude, humility, and generosity, enhancing personal and societal well-being.
Summary: Embracing authenticity and rejecting societal norms can lead to deeper connections, creativity, and personal fulfillment, counteracting the emptiness of conformity.
Ideal for: Professionals, students, and creators feeling trapped by social expectations or performance-driven interactions.
Why It’s Worth Your Time: It encourages genuine expression and purposeful deviance as keys to unlocking meaningful experiences and innovation beyond superficial norms.
Is Success Luck or Hard Work?
by Derek Muller (Veritasium) (12 mins)
Summary: Success results from hard work and luck; people often underestimate luck’s role due to egocentric bias and vividly recall their efforts, not external factors.
Ideal for: Professionals, students, entrepreneurs, and anyone reflecting on career or life success.
Why It’s Worth Your Time: It highlights the importance of recognizing luck to foster gratitude, humility, and generosity, enhancing personal and societal well-being.
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Thank you for reading! We put a lot of thought into curating these pieces because we believe reflecting on the role of luck, authenticity, and purpose is essential in today’s fast-paced world. Hope it sparks something meaningful for you—and if you have any favorite quotes or thoughts, we'd love to hear them! 💬✨
Great reading lists! Here's my learning: https://glasp.co/kei/p/cRM2ye14GqIRXBubkyZW
Also, my favorite quotes:
"I think the biggest competitive advantage in business—either for a company or for an individual’s career—is long-term thinking with a broad view of how different systems in the world are going to come together."
"An effective way to build a network is to help people as much as you can. Doing this, over a long period of time, is what lead to most of my best career opportunities and three of my four best investments."
"The most successful people I know are primarily internally driven; they do what they do to impress themselves and because they feel compelled to make something happen in the world. This is why the question of a person’s motivation is so important. It’s the first thing I try to understand about someone. The right motivations are hard to define a set of rules for, but you know it when you see it.