Dr. Angela Duckworth

Kind of anything, honestly, like anything.

You are so much better off with a team.

I mean, here's the mental picture that I love.

So at the last Olympics, I love these cheesy commercials.

Honestly, I love the commercials as much as I love the events.

And Toyota had this commercial called No Journey is Taken Alone.

And it opens with this female track athlete.

And she's like on the blocks.

And, you know, the British announcer comes over and is like, ready, set, go.

And what happens is all these people rush on to the track.

Her parents and the coaches and her teammates and her friends.

And they're all shouting and, you know, cheering her on.

And then they go through different sports.

And the commercial, this parable really, is like no journey is taken alone.

Understanding that, like literally go out and join a team.

For example, founders are less successful statistically on average than co-founders.

The very best incubators who are looking for the next big, you know, the next big like open AI or whatever, they typically only fund teams.

They're like, come back when you have somebody else.

And when you ask those venture capitalists, like, well, why would you only fund a company

co-founder like why not take this they're like it's too hard like who could do it right so i think one of the lessons in life is like don't take the journey alone you know and if that means running and joining a running club i recently discovered there's something like 30 running clubs in philadelphia now when i look around i notice them i'm like oh yeah there are people who are running together