Think Different, Achieve More: Unleash the Power of Smartcuts in Your Life
Book snippets from Smartcuts - a playbook for achieving accelerated success in a rapidly changing world
Hello Curious Minds,
In this week's edition of Curiosity Logs, we're diving into the captivating insights of "SmartCuts" by Shane Snow—a playbook for achieving accelerated success in a rapidly changing world. From identifying innovative approaches to overcoming obstacles, "SmartCuts" offers a roadmap for those seeking to carve their own path to success.
Join me as we extract thought-provoking snippets and practical strategies from Snow's exploration of unconventional shortcuts to greatness.
“A serious assessment of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential,” writes the futurist and author Ray Kurzweil in his famous essay The Law of Accelerating Returns. “So we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century—it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today’s rate).”
Formal education, in many cases, is so slow or out-of-date that venture capitalists pay bright people to skip school and start Internet companies.
We work hard, but hardly question whether we’re working smart.
Pick your era in history and you’ll find a handful of people—across industries and continents—who buck the norm and do incredible things in implausibly short amounts of time.
certain innovators break convention to find better routes to stunning accomplishments.
New ideas emerge when you question the assumptions upon which a problem is based
fastest route to success is never traditional, and that the conventions we grow up with can be hacked.
true success has more to do with our becoming better people and building a better world while we do these things than it does with the size of our bank accounts.
P.S. I’d love to know: What is the single snippet above that sounds most interesting or impactful to you?
Weekly Curiosity Corner
Interesting book I am reading : The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
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