a16z Podcast: How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
From Aaron Sorkin to Steve Jobs to Meredith Perry and Elon Musk, "original" thinkers -- such as entrepreneurs -- do a lot of different things to move the world to their visions. And many of those things (and traits) are counterintuitive, such as ... Embracing procrastination. But there's a catch: It's about being the just-right amount of procrastinator, expert, or confident. There's a curvilinear relationship between too much and too little. There's also some surprising findings about why NOT to "start with the why" but with the how. Because sometimes the how is much more believable than the…
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