What do you fight for? Who do you want to serve? How can you serve them best?
Set up a modus operandi that focuses on creating something valuable to serve your tribe.
The conscience of an intellectual: for those people who seek truth and possibilities, you fight.
If there is no test nor concrete result required by someone you care about, you won’t have the urgency and discipline to work on something consistently. That is why we need a system.
Human mind by nature is passive and herd following. We can totally ignore sth obvious just because it does not fit our existing world view/theory, until it is explicitly spelled out, described and spread as an alternative theory. That’s why we need thinkers and theorists. They draw our attention to the truth, reality, and possibilities.
Ask the right questions.
Operate strictly on a prioritization basis. You move to your 2nd most important goal only after the first one is on track. Eliminate the temptation to distract your talent time and energy to some seemingly urgent and interesting but actually low-priority things.
Always remember this: no one is in dispensable.
In the biz world, your friend today can turn into your enemy tomorrow, or vice versa. So manage your expectation well and tread carefully.
There are many things that we already know, but we don’t learn the lessons until we really experience them and feel the pain.
Have a realistic plan, take concrete, realistic steps.
