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Sure, this specific advice is not appropriate for everyone, but I love the genre of optimism-generating media. Everyone has some optimism/ambition "efficient frontier" (relative to risk tolerance, values, etc); many behave nowhere close. A simple nudge can remind what's possible.
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How To Be Successful: blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-succ This is very long, but I think one of the most important things I've ever written.
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I'm not even prescribing a normative "people should be more optimistic" (though I think that too). What's so striking is that people often undershoot optimism/ambition relative to *their own* held beliefs about what is possible and valuable. They're just using cached thoughts.
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I feel like a huge component of this is captured in the overall optimism and hope level of a society as a whole, too—things like the Space Race would have done this at scale, I imagine
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This is a big part of what I do now. I can tell you anecdotally that for Aussie founders (brought up in a culture that wants to cut down any “tall poppies”) the delta is enormous.
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