How to be Successful

#longterm

Compound yourself

Choose a carrer that has compound effects

Focus on long term

Self belief

Belief in yourself too much

Learn to think independently

What to do in situation that have no solutions

Relay is better even though most people choose apollo.

Get good at sales

You need to convince people about your ideas

Make it easy to take risks

You just need to the right once

It is easier to take long risk early in career as you not have much too lose but has a lot to gain.

Avoid being comfortable in your job

Focus

Right in the right thing, instead of many hours.

Work hard

You need both smart and hard work

Extreme people get extreme results

Don’t be used to the median

Focus on being number #1 in your field

Be Bold

Choose hard problems, and ambitious ones.

Be Willful

You can bend the world for your will.

Be hard to compete with

Build a strong personal brand (sibelius at react community, relay, twitter, slack)

Join multiple different fields

Be original

Build a network

Help people as much as you can

Your network of talented people is the limit of what you are trying to build

Build a reputation to build a network

push people hard enough so they can grow, but not as hard so they will burn

discover undiscovered talent

is this person a force of nature?

Bet on people

You get rich by owing things

You don’t get rich with high salaries

you get rich with things that grow fast in value

time only scales linearly

Be internally driven

Do things to impress yourself

Codemod impressed myself

Workshop impressed myself

I need to start doing videos and audio to let me from comfort zone

## Links

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## References

• https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful