Great Things In This World
Akira the Don, Naval Ravikant
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We squander our time with the Death of a thousand cuts We squander our time with the Death of a thousand cuts A busy calendar and a busy Mind will destroy your Ability to do great things in this world To do great things in this world You need free time and a free mind To do great things in this world You need free time and a free mind To do great things in this world You should be too busy to do coffee While still keeping an uncluttered calendar People who know me know that I'm Famous for simultaneously doing two things One is having a very clean calendar I have almost no meetings on it while at the Same time I am busy all the time I'm always doing something And it's usually what we call "work-related" It is whatever the highest impact thing Is that needs to be done At that time and that I'm Most interested and inspired about But the only way to do that is to constantly Ruthlessly decline meetings People what to do coffee And build relationships That's fine early in your career When you're still exploring But later in your career when You're exploiting and there are More things coming at you than You have time for You have to ruthlessly cut meetings Out of your life If someone wants to do a meeting See if you can do it With a phone call instead If they wanna do a phone call See if they can do it with an email instead If they wanna do it in email See if they can do a text message instead If they're text messaging You should probably be ignoring most text Messages unless they're true emergencies One has to be utterly Ruthless about dodging meetings When you do do meetings, do walking meetings Do standing meetings keep them short Keep them actionable and small Any meeting with eight people in it Sitting around a conference table Nothing is getting done in that meeting You're literally just dying one Hour at a time You're literally just dying one Hour at a time A busy calendar and a busy Mind will destroy your Ability to do great things in this world To do great things in this world You need free time and a free mind To do great things in this world You need free time and a free mind To do great things in this world When you have something important or Something valuable, other busy Interesting people will meet with you Your calling card has to be, "Hey Here's what I've done here's what I Can show you and I'll Be respectful of your time if This is useful to you" And I find that there are very busy Important people who will take your meeting But you have to come with The proper calling card All the people who tweet and who email Famous or rich people saying, "Hey, if I could just get one meeting with You" and they're vague about it They're not gonna get anywhere in life You have to build up the credibility You have to do the work You have to have proof of work If you have proof of work, and You truly have something interesting Then you shouldn't hesitate to put It together and send it to somebody but even Then, when you're asking for a meeting You wanna be super actionable about it Even if you yourself haven't made it yet If you think you're gonna make It by going out and networking and Doing a whole bunch of meetings You're probably incorrect Yes, networking can be important Early in your career, and yes you can get Serendipitous with meetings But the odds are pretty low Just meeting people and hoping to Get that lucky break, you're relying on Type one luck, which is blind Luck, and type two luck Which is hustle luck But what you're not getting is type three or Type four luck which are the better kind Where you spend time developing A reputation working on Something, developing a unique point of view Being able to spot opportunities That others can't A busy calendar and a busy Mind will destroy your Ability to do great things in this world To do great things in this world You need free time and a free mind To do great things in this world You need free time and a free mind To do great things in this world A busy calendar and a busy Mind will destroy your Ability to do great things in this world To do great things in this world You need free time and a free mind To do great things in this world You need free time and a free mind To do great things in this world If you wanna be able to do great things Whether you're a musician, entrepreneur, or You're an investor You need free time and you need a free mind If you wanna be able to do great things You need free time and you need a free mind
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