A Fool’s Errand – Resumption Monday
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." - Aristotle
In the first issue of the year, I emphasized that we try to think in paradoxes, as they sometimes hold the key to doing things differently.
Today, while reading, I came across a statement and it resonated with me because I had heard something similar in the past.
This year is not the year to run the fool’s errand, you need to be intentional, and as work resumes today, this is how you get the best out of the year.
I will be discussing three ideas and telling you how they apply to you.
#1 – “What you work on and who you work with are more important than how hard you work.” – Naval Ravikant
This year, the aim is not simply to work harder, as it rewards you slowly over time. The aim is to compound effort by putting it in the right things and places and doing that with the right people who have similar goals as you.
The problem with just working hard is that it is difficult to scale, and you don’t need that. This year, put the right amount of work into the right things and with the right people.
#2 – Riches are in the niches
This year is the year to explore those things that many feels are too small to focus any attention on.
If people are willing to know more about it, get it off their hands, do less of it, and are willing to pay money or trade value to have these things done, then that is your opportunity. The more specialized the better.
Nick Huber says “You’re way better off building something that can add a lot more value to a very small subset of the population.”
#3 – I don’t need money
This is a lie. So far as you have plans that require some measure of value to build, then you do need the money and lots of it. If you plan to change the world someway somehow, then you need money or people with money.
Do you know who really influences the world we live in? People with money. So make some money and change the world later.
Think about this and I’ll see you around.
Chucks.