Ivanka Trump
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And I've seen a lot of brilliant people.
I went to school with many of them who were way smarter than anyone else in the class who flamed out
By going in a direction that they were capable and proficient in but not passionate about.
So it has to โ you have to want it.
Because if you don't, somebody who's less โ perhaps less capable, perhaps less smart, they'll work twice as hard.
And, like, you can't compete with that.
So that's number one.
I think number two is โ
You can't imitate anyone.
You have to be yourself.
And we've talked a lot about, like, knowing thyself.
But actually, Naval, who's a friend of mine who's great, he talks about, like, as an entrepreneur, the importance of authenticity and howโฆ
it's the key.
When you're copying, you're losing.
You have to be yourself, and then nobody can compete with you.
And so I think you have to sort of find yourself, be yourself.
You can't be derivative of anything else.
Of course, you can learn from others, but you have to blaze your own course.
And as an entrepreneur building something new, you have to have also a tremendous amount of resilience through that process.
And