A summary of a few things that stood out to me in the video:
- You don't have to be 100% original all the time. No one can do that. What you can do is be good at copying the best. Surround yourself with brilliant minds first then pave your path from there.
- If you are in a position of power, use that. Use that power to give opportunity to the less fortunate.
- When you can't go anymore, let it be at the gym or work or anything, when you feel like giving up, push yourself one more time. One extra rep on that squat set, taking an extra 10 minutes to debug your code before you ask for help, waking up 10 minutes earlier than the day before, etc.
- See money as a way to bring a change. You can own 10 houses and 2 yachts but the gratitude you see from someone you helped go to college will mean a lot more than empty castles that echo nothing but vanity.
- Soul searching and finding a purpose in life instead of indulging on temporary dopamine highs from likes and hearts and comments through social media.
- Get money. The competition is rough so it's even more important to earn. However, key is to NOT be a sell-out at the end. "Absence of capital, you're irrelevant. With capital, you're powerful."
This was an interesting video. I like that he talked about problems that are currently relevant and also touched on things that we can do about them. I personally feel like most inventions and successful business ideas started with a good purpose. For instance, Facebook. It was a great idea. Connecting people from all over the world conveniently. As someone who lives away from most of my family, Facebook definitely helps me get updates on their lives. I've found tons of people that I lost contact with after moving to the US through Facebook. The main purpose behind it was probably to help connect people. But like everything that you can think of, EVERYTHING has its pros and cons. You just have to be mindful about what you are doing and how it might be affecting your life.
When books and writing in paper started becoming a thing, people were afraid it will make us dumb but that just ended up helping humanity by giving us the ability to record our progresses and achievement for the future generations to build up on. Everything has its pros and cons. You just can't get attached to something. Attachment is the core issue.
Anyone can find out the issues in the world and complain about it. Yes, there are plenty of problems. Some will take years to overcome, some will take decades to overcome. So instead of giving up on the present and the future, I think everyone should take any step they can to make use of their time productively. Yes, one plastic bottle being recycled isn't going to save the Earth but at least I will know that I did what I could at the moment.
Your points are excellent, you should take this and make a post about it yourself. Not just for others, but so it further cements it in your own mind and creates the action.
This is the hard part for many. They fear losing what they have gained.
Thank you @tarazkp! As I was writing the comment, I thought about making a post about this instead of putting an essay in your comment section haha. Maybe I will make a post once my finals are done.
He mentioned this in the video too saying how he doesn't know how to keep himself from forgetting his purpose. I'm going to dwell in this thought and hopefully come up with some preventive measures.
I fear this often. Losing track of who I am or what I want to do in my life. Losing some morality due to life in general.
Let’s not remember that he came to that point after having been one of the main culprits of Facebook’s
dominancegrowth. When he left the blue giant in 2011, everything in its path was being eaten already and Facebook soon also became an acquisition monster.That makes his dilemma much more valid btw.
This. Almost all disruptive ideas, and startups, came from a specific pain point. A lack of something (FB) or an impossibly difficult way (Uber). Most of the disruptive startups became popular because they provided the user with a better, a faster option. They challenged the status quo.
That, eventually, accepted venture capital and greed of investors, who play a very dangerous game with their reputation and need to hint and capitalise on those few unicorns, would dominate the board room and thus often eventual poorly affect the further technological evolution is a sad, but also inevitable, outcome of popularity. Share/stakeholders want a return. The more they invested, the higher the return they want.