Focus = Success
00:00:00.000 | - The biggest piece of advice that I still struggle
00:00:02.420 | to take every day, every time I have though,
00:00:05.240 | it's had profound impact on my life, is to focus.
00:00:07.960 | Every time I focused and avoided distractions,
00:00:10.860 | it's made a huge impact.
00:00:11.820 | I think that everyone assumes that there's this power law
00:00:14.220 | in the world that you are a passive participant in.
00:00:18.140 | You're either going to catch one of the power law winners
00:00:20.160 | or you're going to lose it.
00:00:21.340 | Therefore, you've got to portfolio your way
00:00:23.160 | to a power law, to catch a power law.
00:00:25.800 | I don't give a shit about that because I think my job in life
00:00:28.560 | is to make the power law and to make that outcome.
00:00:31.120 | And I feel like that has made a huge impact
00:00:33.280 | on how I think about life.
00:00:34.440 | Every time I've tried to act on it,
00:00:35.960 | it's actually paid back significantly.
00:00:38.200 | So focus is the biggest piece of advice I've gotten
00:00:40.560 | that I think matters.
00:00:41.400 | Seven samurai.
00:00:42.240 | Akira Kurosawa did such an amazing job
00:00:45.640 | representing this ethos, I think.
00:00:47.320 | You strike and you strike perfectly
00:00:49.180 | and you strike with full force and with all your energy
00:00:51.320 | and everything you have, your whole character, everything,
00:00:53.440 | and you can accomplish incredible things.