Lies that you’ve been told about the world on startups, career and growth.
There are many lies that you've been told about this world. Here are the real truths of most of them.
Making contents short is a great piece of cake : WRONG!
They watch a 3-hr long Joe Rogan podcast/show.
They Binge watch 14 hour long shows.
The point is that people don’t have short attention span; they have short *consideration span*.
Don’t fear making a 3-4 hour long in-depth content/Podcast. Focus on making the first few minutes incredible so it is worth watching the entire show.
Friends and other people sold their startups to live well: WRONG!
After selling their startup they get back to their side-hustling projects.
They used their money to eat well. That’s it. They get back to who they were initially.
So, focus on being fulfilled, not getting rich.
If you’re in your 20s, then you should read 100s of books to get successful : WRONG!
You get 0 kudos and success on reading 100s of books in a year.
You’ll get success on learning interesting and valuable lessons and building new things.
Reading books is good but applying the learnings from that is an art.
Bloggers who post regularly(2x-3x) a week only get insane followers : WRONG!
Writing consistently is good but you need to include those insights from which people could learn and apply.
Curate ideas for the long-run and write amazing blogs when you feel like writing.
Be that writer who publishes sporadically, but when you write you must have something to say.
World runs by Exceptionally great people : WRONG!
World was always run by simple and ordinary people who became extraordinary by doing smart things.
Don’t think that you’re odd or new to this world.
Just be you, curate new ideas and learn to build new things for society. You’ll be exceptionally great.
Just try to build discipline in yourself and see things get changed in your life.
Success is an end-state : WRONG!
Success is the starting point for you to grow and fly high-above.
Success is having the freedom to focus on the grind you actually enjoy.
Just try to spend more energy on building high-tight friend groups and people that’ll be with you until your old age.
YOU should work your butt off in your early 20s : WRONG!
You should not be working massively hard, but smarter.
Build leverage to your profile and work smarter.
Construct some mechanisms so that opportunities fall on your plate to achieve massive outputs by applying minimum to low efforts.
Online privacy is not an illusion : WRONG!
Beware signing up for a free extension that gives it the access to manipulate everything in your mail.
You’re giving some 20-yr olds the equivalent of your Bank ID, and passwords.
Online privacy is an illusion. Stop getting deceived by it.
Constructing your identity through media, sports and other things will make you live a good life : WRONG!
Instead of this, you should focus on constructing your identities on the things you create.
You’re a craftsperson - The one who continually refines to perfection.
Most friends are friends : WRONG!
Wrongly been told that every good person whom you meet are our friends. They’re your acquaintance.
Friends are someone who could even drive you to emergency at 3AM
They are who can be with you forever up till the old age.
Invest in making good friends, not people.
That’s it for today’s newsletter. I hope that you’ve learned something valuable and new today.
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Till then stay curious, my friends ;)