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Cameron

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Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

It's like, how should I be spending my time? I should either be reading or I should be making podcasts in my work. That's all I have to do. And the one reason, like, I don't have an assistant or I don't have anything else. So they're like, well, you need an assistant. You're hard to get in touch with. I was like, well, then I'm managing a calendar.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

It's like, how should I be spending my time? I should either be reading or I should be making podcasts in my work. That's all I have to do. And the one reason, like, I don't have an assistant or I don't have anything else. So they're like, well, you need an assistant. You're hard to get in touch with. I was like, well, then I'm managing a calendar.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

I shouldn't have a calendar because all I have to do is wake up every day. As long as I wake up every day and I read for a few hours a day. Right. And I sit down once a week and I summarize what I learned that week from a reading. I will get everything I want in life. Everything else from that is a distraction. Dude.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

I shouldn't have a calendar because all I have to do is wake up every day. As long as I wake up every day and I read for a few hours a day. Right. And I sit down once a week and I summarize what I learned that week from a reading. I will get everything I want in life. Everything else from that is a distraction. Dude.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

I shouldn't have a calendar because all I have to do is wake up every day. As long as I wake up every day and I read for a few hours a day. Right. And I sit down once a week and I summarize what I learned that week from a reading. I will get everything I want in life. Everything else from that is a distraction. Dude.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

You see this at Elon. So all the stuff that happened with the election, I, you know, I saw all the tweets and everything. I think the most important tweet was that this perfect encapsulation of why it makes Elon great. And like, he literally figures like, what is the most important lever for what I'm trying to accomplish today? And then he relentlessly jumps up and down on it.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

You see this at Elon. So all the stuff that happened with the election, I, you know, I saw all the tweets and everything. I think the most important tweet was that this perfect encapsulation of why it makes Elon great. And like, he literally figures like, what is the most important lever for what I'm trying to accomplish today? And then he relentlessly jumps up and down on it.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

You see this at Elon. So all the stuff that happened with the election, I, you know, I saw all the tweets and everything. I think the most important tweet was that this perfect encapsulation of why it makes Elon great. And like, he literally figures like, what is the most important lever for what I'm trying to accomplish today? And then he relentlessly jumps up and down on it.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

So he identifies like, oh, the entire election hinges on Pennsylvania. So like, I will build a ground game there. I will go like, he's like, if we win Pennsylvania, we do everything else. And so he sets up shop and he just puts all of his resources behind it. You know, in the early days of SpaceX. The only thing that matters is if we don't get a rocket into orbit, we have nothing else.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

So he identifies like, oh, the entire election hinges on Pennsylvania. So like, I will build a ground game there. I will go like, he's like, if we win Pennsylvania, we do everything else. And so he sets up shop and he just puts all of his resources behind it. You know, in the early days of SpaceX. The only thing that matters is if we don't get a rocket into orbit, we have nothing else.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

So he identifies like, oh, the entire election hinges on Pennsylvania. So like, I will build a ground game there. I will go like, he's like, if we win Pennsylvania, we do everything else. And so he sets up shop and he just puts all of his resources behind it. You know, in the early days of SpaceX. The only thing that matters is if we don't get a rocket into orbit, we have nothing else.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

So what's the most thing? Getting a rocket to orbit. And then once we do that, we obviously have to sell it and everything else. He, and one of, Elon doesn't have a lot of mentors, but I've heard him reference Larry Ellison as one of his mentors, which I thought was fascinating. And I've read three biographies on Ellison. I wish there were more.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

So what's the most thing? Getting a rocket to orbit. And then once we do that, we obviously have to sell it and everything else. He, and one of, Elon doesn't have a lot of mentors, but I've heard him reference Larry Ellison as one of his mentors, which I thought was fascinating. And I've read three biographies on Ellison. I wish there were more.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

So what's the most thing? Getting a rocket to orbit. And then once we do that, we obviously have to sell it and everything else. He, and one of, Elon doesn't have a lot of mentors, but I've heard him reference Larry Ellison as one of his mentors, which I thought was fascinating. And I've read three biographies on Ellison. I wish there were more.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

And in one of the biographies, Larry Ellison is arguing, right? He's one of the richest people on the planet. He owns like 40% of Oracle, for God's sake. He's arguing with his assistant because the assistant's like, hey, we have a hundred important things. There's a thousand things we need to get to. He's like, no, no, no. There's not a hundred. There's not a thousand. There's three.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

And in one of the biographies, Larry Ellison is arguing, right? He's one of the richest people on the planet. He owns like 40% of Oracle, for God's sake. He's arguing with his assistant because the assistant's like, hey, we have a hundred important things. There's a thousand things we need to get to. He's like, no, no, no. There's not a hundred. There's not a thousand. There's three.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

And in one of the biographies, Larry Ellison is arguing, right? He's one of the richest people on the planet. He owns like 40% of Oracle, for God's sake. He's arguing with his assistant because the assistant's like, hey, we have a hundred important things. There's a thousand things we need to get to. He's like, no, no, no. There's not a hundred. There's not a thousand. There's three.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

He goes, I'm going to focus on those three and I'm going to ignore everything else. Ruthless prioritization. Like that is such a key part of achieving things in life.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

He goes, I'm going to focus on those three and I'm going to ignore everything else. Ruthless prioritization. Like that is such a key part of achieving things in life.

Modern Wisdom
#878 - David Senra - 15 Harsh Truths From History’s Greatest Founders

He goes, I'm going to focus on those three and I'm going to ignore everything else. Ruthless prioritization. Like that is such a key part of achieving things in life.