“Don’t do anything that someone else can do. Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.” – Edwin Land
Don’t let others solve your important problems.
Solve your own problem. Mind your own business.
Because as Naval says, if you are not 100 percent into it, somebody else who is will outperform you by a lot because compound interest and leverage really applies in the domain of ideas.
Related:
- Make sure the problem is solvable
- 2-1c1 ‘Comparative advantage’ - If others can do it, let them
- 3-1b1c Occasionally ask ‘am I working on what I most want to work on’
- 3-1b2 Use the Fun Criterion to filter what problems to work on
- 13-1a3.0a Always go for the best—work on the best project, work in the best industry, work with the best people
- RUL3 - “Staying Upwind” - don’t plan too much; instead, work on ambitious projects and flow to the most interesting that gives you the best options for the future
- QUE5 - Ask “am I working on what I most want to work on” because per-project procrastination is far worse than daily procrastination
- QUE5 - What’s the best thing you could be working on, and why aren’t you