(This note is a [[Work in Public]].) Don't need to be perfect - comes from the lean startup philosophy - no one else knows what the right thing to do (ie the right answer) either, we're all just flying by the seat of our pants - grad students rarely talk about their research with their other grad student friends - scientific method - One consequence is that I believe in reincarnation (I was a hawk in my previous life, I love the wind and I have a sharp eye for opportunities) - Be willing to throw away bad work (and be willing to do bad work that you will throw away, and by doing so be willing to waste time to learn by doing; the learning curve is asymptotic and looks logarithmic) Can go into my discomfort zone. This is both the first 90% and the last 90%. Taking risks is what differentiates entrepreneurs from non-entrepreneurs. So how do we build a tolerance for risk? - Confidence is needed to take risks. But "confidence" is too vague. Confidence in what? That everything will be okay (stability). - Experiences - taking action - are the only way to test your abilities (which are only limited by your body, health, and limiting beliefs). - Being willing to be wrong, and face the humiliation of being wrong. `Luck = Preparation * Opportunity` - How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis (which was really from Senica, but I like this part of Felix's book). When I talk about entrepreneurship, I talk about it as a way to recognize opportunity. There is a nice connection here between an entrepreneur's mindset and the fallacy of luck. There is also a connection between an entrepreneur's mindset and taking responsibility for our results, even if those results are not 100% controlled by us. Boldness => action, which drastically increases the likelihood of success. It's much harder to get rich if you don't take bold action. Write about the idea that school taught me that everything in the world is already solved. I remember asking Mrs. Andre, in 7th grade, what the point of learning was if everything was already known. School doesn't teach us what the unknowns are until we get to college, and even then they rarely teach us the unknowns. The game of Cram is one of the fascinating examples to me, because it's just such a simple game and such a simple idea to predict the winner, but it is an unsolved problem. Stop-doing lists are more important than to-do lists. From many sources, [this](https://www.grahammann.net/book-notes/essentialism-the-disciplined-pursuit-of-less-greg-mckeown?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Weekly+Mix+%23190+-+Unsolicited+Advice%2C+Questions%2C+Basecamp+%26+Working+on+the+Right+Things%20-%205782670) is probably a good one (see the first bullets for chapter 1). Another reference is the idea that "you create time", which is from The Big Leap. Transitioning from scarcity to abundance. I used to think that this was only a mindset thing, but I also think it is a skill thing, and therefore a time thing. Optimization, equation, the variables change with the swap and that changes the entire perspective. Maximization via the potential energy landscape. > Once an Australian nurse named Bronnie Ware, who cared for people in the last twelve weeks of their lives, recorded their most often discussed regrets. At the top of the list: "I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me." ^ This is what I appreciate so much about my family. They let me do this. Freedom is having the ability to choose the pain you want to endure. (Pulled from a combination of "what pain are you willing to endure" and [Julian Shapiro's](https://twitter.com/Julian/status/1384971886292082688) "Success is having the freedom to focus on the grind you actually enjoy.") Thresholds. Ice melting, IQ > EQ is a thresholds. Diminishing returns.