At first, you blame others.
Then, one day, you blame yourself—not out of shame, but out of ownership.
That’s the day you stop being the victim and start becoming the victor.
Most people chase success, love, or status thinking they’ve “found their purpose.”
But that’s just the first layer.
The deeper truth is stranger—and far more liberating:
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If you're the type of person who has a lot of ideas, your mind is your worst enemy, because you also have a lot of excuses. The good news is: making excuses is a habit, and if you can replace that habit with execution, you become unstoppable.
🚨Chamath on the Student Debt Crisis: " There was a framing of the issue for an entire generation that was probably wrong."
“There was an entire generation, if not two generations, of young men and women who were told that they must, not should, not it's nice to, they must go to university.”
“And these folks took out an enormous amount of financial support to do so.”
“And part of the underlying reason was that they were told, and it sounds very credible, technology is coming and there's gonna be so much automation of all of the other kinds of jobs that you may do in trade school, (so) you should go to university and protect yourself.”
“Well, lo and behold, it's turned out to be the exact opposite.”
“So could you imagine where you could have gone to trade school, been an electrician, been a plumber, made a couple hundred grand, married somebody, she does a good job, now all of a sudden she also makes $150k, $200k a year.”
“You're making $400k and you have no debt. That is the key. You have no debt.”
“When you make $400k and have no debt, I'm sorry, but it's probably actually better than being the doctor making a million bucks.”
“And then there are all of these other jobs that aren't a doctor, where you're still saddled with the $300k (in debt) and you have no way of paying it back.”
“There was a framing of the issue for an entire generation that was probably wrong.”
“If I had to bet, I would bet that engineers are more likely to have their jobs sort of replaced in the short term than welders and plumbers.”
While open communication is very important, the challenge is to do it in a time-efficient way--you can't have individual conversations with everyone. It is helpful to identify easy ways of sharing, like open emails posted on an FAQ board or sending around videotapes or audio recordings of key meetings. (I call such approaches "leverage.") The challenges become greater the higher you go in the reporting hierarchy because the number of people affected by your actions and who also have opinions and/or questions grows so large. In such cases, you will need even greater leverage and prioritization (for example by having some of the questions answered by a well-equipped party who works for you or by asking people to prioritize their questions by urgency or importance).
#principleoftheday
The calmest people often carry the darkest rage.
The ones who play nice… are sometimes hiding a war inside.
Here’s why your “goodness” might be killing your power:https://t.co/gXTGVSzLnZ