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Cameron

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

And then he went out and proved it. Now, when I say belief comes before ability, it doesn't mean you just sit there and be like, I'm great. And you don't do it. No, you do the work necessary to achieve what you want. But if you're waiting for the external world to like push, encourage you or, and edge you on, like it's impossible.

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

Okay.

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

Okay.

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

Okay.

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

Yeah. I would like, I, you could say self, when I say belief comes before ability, I mean, self-belief. Yeah. But I don't, that line, I would disagree where it's like self-belief is overrated. I think it's the, the, the, the highest order bit. There's actually one area where I disagree with Steve Jobs and he talks about like, um,

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

Yeah. I would like, I, you could say self, when I say belief comes before ability, I mean, self-belief. Yeah. But I don't, that line, I would disagree where it's like self-belief is overrated. I think it's the, the, the, the highest order bit. There's actually one area where I disagree with Steve Jobs and he talks about like, um,

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

Yeah. I would like, I, you could say self, when I say belief comes before ability, I mean, self-belief. Yeah. But I don't, that line, I would disagree where it's like self-belief is overrated. I think it's the, the, the, the highest order bit. There's actually one area where I disagree with Steve Jobs and he talks about like, um,

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

The highest order bit, it's from like computer science where it's like the most important part of the system, right? And this is like a complete like oversimplification of it. But, and his whole thing was like the highest order bit is that like you love what you do. And for all the reasons that we discussed earlier, you'll keep doing it for a long time. You'll persevere and everything else.

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

The highest order bit, it's from like computer science where it's like the most important part of the system, right? And this is like a complete like oversimplification of it. But, and his whole thing was like the highest order bit is that like you love what you do. And for all the reasons that we discussed earlier, you'll keep doing it for a long time. You'll persevere and everything else.

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

The highest order bit, it's from like computer science where it's like the most important part of the system, right? And this is like a complete like oversimplification of it. But, and his whole thing was like the highest order bit is that like you love what you do. And for all the reasons that we discussed earlier, you'll keep doing it for a long time. You'll persevere and everything else.

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

And I love what I do. I know you love what you do. And I agree, like it's super important. I think it makes life easier. You used a phrase like you're swimming downstream earlier, I think is a great way to put that. And so I was thinking about that because the Steve Jobs archive, which is run by Steve's widow, just released this free book. You can read online called make something wonderful.

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

And I love what I do. I know you love what you do. And I agree, like it's super important. I think it makes life easier. You used a phrase like you're swimming downstream earlier, I think is a great way to put that. And so I was thinking about that because the Steve Jobs archive, which is run by Steve's widow, just released this free book. You can read online called make something wonderful.

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

And I love what I do. I know you love what you do. And I agree, like it's super important. I think it makes life easier. You used a phrase like you're swimming downstream earlier, I think is a great way to put that. And so I was thinking about that because the Steve Jobs archive, which is run by Steve's widow, just released this free book. You can read online called make something wonderful.

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

Steve Jobs in his own words. And it's remarkable. And so like I've read it a bunch of times and, you know, he talks about this in there. That's where I discovered the highest order bit part. And then I was thinking about it more and more. And I was just like, well, no, that's not like what comes first.

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

Steve Jobs in his own words. And it's remarkable. And so like I've read it a bunch of times and, you know, he talks about this in there. That's where I discovered the highest order bit part. And then I was thinking about it more and more. And I was just like, well, no, that's not like what comes first.

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

Steve Jobs in his own words. And it's remarkable. And so like I've read it a bunch of times and, you know, he talks about this in there. That's where I discovered the highest order bit part. And then I was thinking about it more and more. And I was just like, well, no, that's not like what comes first.

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

It's like the belief that you can actually do something that's valuable to the world that provide that like is an active service and makes the world a better place. And I think me and you might be good examples. It's like, how many years were you doing the podcast before anybody gave a damn? Three and a half. Mine was five and a half. Why were you still doing it?

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

It's like the belief that you can actually do something that's valuable to the world that provide that like is an active service and makes the world a better place. And I think me and you might be good examples. It's like, how many years were you doing the podcast before anybody gave a damn? Three and a half. Mine was five and a half. Why were you still doing it?

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

It's like the belief that you can actually do something that's valuable to the world that provide that like is an active service and makes the world a better place. And I think me and you might be good examples. It's like, how many years were you doing the podcast before anybody gave a damn? Three and a half. Mine was five and a half. Why were you still doing it?

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

because you believed that you could, like you believed that you could do it. The belief that you had that you could actually make something worth people's time and listening, right? That lag was a couple years before the world's like, yes, Chris, we agree with you.