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“The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. Nobody will pay you to solve a non-problem.”4
failure is an important part of life’s learning process.
The key to success is the ability to extract the lessons out of each of these experiences and to move on with that new knowledge.
provide a new lens through which to view the obstacles you encounter every day while charting your course into the future. It is designed to give you permission to question conventional wisdom and to revisit the rules around you.
we can choose to view the world through different lenses—lenses that allow us to see problems in a new light. The more we take on problems, the more confident and proficient we become at solving them.
In other words, if we clearly define a problem, the solution will logically present itself.
Riddle, the importance of having the zeal to solve a grand problem, as opposed to being motivated to make money.4
stay within the boundaries. If you ask someone how to go about making a movie, starting a company, getting into graduate school, or running for political office, you will usually get a long recipe that involves getting incrementally more support from those who are already in these fields. It involves agents and seed funding and exams and approvals. The majority of people choose to follow those rules…and others don’t. It is important to keep in mind that there are often creative ways to work around the rules, to jump over the traditional hurdles, and to get to your goal by taking a side route.
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He doesn’t wait for an invitation to contact these people, but takes it upon himself to make the first move.
Most people don’t assess their roles frequently enough and so stay in positions for years longer than they should, settling for suboptimal situations.
