Metadata
- Author: Sam Altman
- Full Title:: How to Be Successful
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Happiness,
- URL:: https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful
- Finished date:: 2023-08-20
Highlights
Which, from what I remember from a paper, tech is one of those careers
You don’t want to be in a career where people who have been doing it for two years can be as effective as people who have been doing it for twenty (View Highlight)
The most successful people I know believe in themselves almost to the point of delusion. (View Highlight)
Self-belief must be balanced with self-awareness (View Highlight)
Extreme people get extreme results. Working a lot comes with huge life trade-offs, and it’s perfectly rational to decide not to do it. But it has a lot of advantages. As in most cases, momentum compounds, and success begets success. (View Highlight)
You get truly rich by owning things that increase rapidly in value. This can be a piece of a business, real estate, natural resource, intellectual property, or other similar things. But somehow or other, you need to own equity in something, instead of just selling your time. Time only scales linearly. (View Highlight)
- Be internally driven (View Highlight)