Bill Gurley

There's a phrase in the book that I use called, you know, become a candidate of one.

And I think a lot of people that are very successful in the world don't think about

A career is something where I'm going to pick one off a menu and apply to it.

They they decide that they want to do something and they go after it and kind of create that opportunity for themselves.

And a lot of times it's acting as an entrepreneur of one.

So I and I suspect you consider yourself in your dream job.

Well, the book is separated into two halves that alternate.

It's stories of success, which are called profiles, and principles of success, which are the tools.

And the stories are meant to inspire you and to disinhibit and make people understand and believe that they can go do this thing.

And

then the tools are to give people the things they need to go be successful.

And the very first thing we talk about is fully understanding what it is you're most curious about.

And the reason it's so important is

if you really wanna differentiate yourself, you really wanna be successful, you really wanna dent the universe, you have to love learning about what you do.

Because if you love learning about what you do, and I think the ultimate test is in your spare time, instead of watching a Netflix show, you're reading about this thing that you love, you're gonna out hustle everybody else.

And the flip side is true.

If you don't love it and you're not constantly learning, someone else is.

And you're going to have a really hard time keeping up with them.

Yep.

And I find all too often in a lot of traditional jobs, people think,