Bill Gurley

I'm a former blogger.

As a venture capitalist, I look for patterns and ideas, and this thing kind of synthesized for me.

And all of these people started at the bottom rung, and all of these people were working in fields your parents would probably tell you not to go into.

And

I think at the single synthesis of the whole thing is that if you can find something where you have just immense curiosity, that you end up in this learning loop that's self-reinforcing.

And almost all the people we profiled are lifelong learners, like just constantly learning in their field.

And

When I decided to turn it into a book, a bunch of people noticed the presentation.

James Clear was one of them that reposted it, and that's part of what pushed me to go do the book.

But we probably studied 100 more biographies.

We went through all the academic literature.

We talked to...

Angela Duckworth and Adam Grant and Daniel Pink and all the people that are known in the field got a lot of help from all of them.

And so there was a lot more work.

And we also did a study with Wharton about people and whether they end up in a job that they're happy with or not.

And so there's a lot more synthesis, a lot more data in the book that relates to that.

Yeah, I mean, identifying something that you have that much curiosity about is difficult, and it's not easy.

And Angela Duckworth, six years after she wrote Grit, said if she were doing it over again, she had said Grit was half passion, half perseverance.

And she said, many kids we've taught to persevere, especially with the state of the kind of resume arms race that goes into the college application, but then they burn out.

And