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Anything you start, you will suck at. You will be embarrassing. But you will survive.
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- Your ability to work long hours, sleep less, and maintain high levels of focus while maintaining peak fluid intelligence is at its [music] peak.
- And so, not taking the shot is like saying, [music] "Life, I don't want to scratch off this lottery ticket." But, the lottery ticket's free.
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0:00If you're 22 years old, like the world [music] does not hate you. You're just not good at anything yet. If you seek to be good at something, >> [music] >> then you have a tremendous deficit in experience and repetitions [music] that people who are ahead of you or who have achieved what you want to achieve have over you. And so, the only thing you have now, you do have an advantage. [music] You have a couple. Number one is that you will have more energy than they do. Your ability to work long hours, sleep less, and maintain high levels of focus while maintaining peak fluid intelligence is at its [music] peak.
0:30Use it. The second thing is that you have nothing to lose. [music] And so, the thing is is people always fear being the new the new entrant. But, when you have nothing to lose or you have nothing going [music] for you, it also means you have nothing to lose. And that means that every position on the board always [music] has an advantage because anybody who has achieved this big thing that you have was also once a 22-year-old who had nothing going for them. >> You're at zero. >> Right. [music] >> You can't get worse than this. >> You have unlimited shots on goal. And so, not taking the shot is like saying, [music] "Life, I don't want to scratch off this lottery ticket." But, the lottery ticket's free.