Bill Gurley

The thing is, if you find something that you have this fascination with, then that lifelong honing goes forever.

And it's just really hard to find.

And I have a number of examples in the book that I borrowed mostly from other people that have written books in the career space on trying to identify that thing.

But if you do, then you have just this immense kind of learning machine that goes on where

I like to say one way to test if you're really in that lane or not, would you study about your field at night instead of watching Breaking Bad?

Like, does it compete with what you would consider to be free time activities?

Because for most of the people that are really...

On top of this thing, if a new article pops up, it's something they want to consume right away.

And that work or what some people would think of as work doesn't require energy.

In fact, I think it emits energy when they're able to think about this thing that they love so much.

And so that's really the foundational block.

After that, I'm a big believer in peer groups, which is something I don't think a lot of other people had really explored as much.

And so finding people that are on the journey with you at the same time and embracing them.

And we have some incredible examples in the book of people that did that early on and went on, the whole group went on to success.

I think a lot of our learning from people

How to think about your career climb comes from zero-sum games, comes from athletics and that kind of thing.

And so some people come in sharp elbowed and there's no reason to.

There's tons and tons of winners in any career path and peers can be super helpful along the way.

We added a chapter that wasn't in the presentation about going to the epicenter and probably have gotten some of the most positive feedback about that.

There's a lot of reasons why a human would be afraid, for instance, to go launch their film career in LA or to just up and move to Silicon Valley.