Diary Of A CEO is Making You Less Successful

[TheBG]

Great watch.

[PsychedelicEagle]

Good watch indeed. Thanks!

Edited Monday at 04:57 PM by PsychedelicEagle

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Thanks for the share - I came across this one by accident then saw your post 😁

[Shermaningeorgia]

Does anybody seriously watch him for life tips? he's just a person who got lucky in business and via connections, started a podcast. he actually had some good guests on there a few years ago but he seems way more agenda driven these days. 

[Lyubov]

It's just another success treadmill podcast where you are the product and the podcaster and guests have hypnotized themselves and leech your attention to line their pockets. 

Edited Wednesday at 07:26 PM by Lyubov

[Basman]

what do you mean watching YT all day isn't making me successful? 

[Lyubov]

This video is super interesting. I think his view is a tad too deterministic though. He highlights randomness and dumb luck which is without a doubt a huge factor. The middle way is how I make sense of this in practice, because if you believe everything is random and luck, you make yourself a victim instead of the creator. It's not all luck, a ton of luck and just the unfolding of life which has a random nature to it is most definitely a large part of it but it's not what is necessary to focus on entirely when choosing what to react to, what to believe, what to do that works in Wu Wei with life. 

Edited Wednesday at 07:59 PM by Lyubov

[LoneWonderer]

Thanks for sharing. Insightful video.

[LordFall]

This guy makes some good points but is mainly delusional and coping imo. Success is luck is a crazy trope. I run a business community and I've talked to dozens of people that are in business or looking to get into it. A lot of people looking to get into it tell me wow that's sick I wanna start my business! And then 12 months later have done about 2 hours of work towards it.

He does point out some good points like the overall lowering of upward mobility and in general macroeconomics fucks all of us over but saying that successful people have nothing to share and teach is insane. You can look at Mark Zuckerberg and him putting all his time into starting a competitor to myspace and say he got lucky. Sure but there are still plenty of things to learn about product market fit, innovation on competition, finding investors, company structure, etc. As a matter of fact I'm learning from zuckerberg to create my own app so I mean I'm not there yet but I've been inspired and have learned tons already.

He's right that a lot of these long form content is specifically made to be long and consume your attention instead of being as concise as possible but I think he's doing a bit of throwing out the baby with the bathwater. 

 

[Elliott]

16 minutes ago, LordFall said:

This guy makes some good points but is mainly delusional and coping imo. Success is luck is a crazy trope. I run a business community and I've talked to dozens of people that are in business or looking to get into it. A lot of people looking to get into it tell me wow that's sick I wanna start my business! And then 12 months later have done about 2 hours of work towards it.

He does point out some good points like the overall lowering of upward mobility and in general macroeconomics fucks all of us over but saying that successful people have nothing to share and teach is insane. You can look at Mark Zuckerberg and him putting all his time into starting a competitor to myspace and say he got lucky. Sure but there are still plenty of things to learn about product market fit, innovation on competition, finding investors, company structure, etc. As a matter of fact I'm learning from zuckerberg to create my own app so I mean I'm not there yet but I've been inspired and have learned tons already.

He's right that a lot of these long form content is specifically made to be long and consume your attention instead of being as concise as possible but I think he's doing a bit of throwing out the baby with the bathwater. 

 

Do you think Zuck studied all these CEOs before starting facebook, or, he essentially just did it? Most successful people just do it, they don't stay in a constant state of learning from the best to start, first they actually just get successful, then they learn from others to continue and grow their success, usually at a much slower rate though.

Essentially, just go out and keep trying and learning from your experience, and wait for luck(while still trying).

Gates, Bezos, Musk, Buffet, Jobs, Rockefeller, Carnegie,.... you think they hired coaches before they got successful, went to coaching seminars? Read self-help books, Or they just went for it HARD?

Edited 5 hours ago by Elliott

[LordFall]

1 hour ago, Elliott said:

Do you think Zuck studied all these CEOs before starting facebook, or, he essentially just did it? Most successful people just do it, they don't stay in a constant state of learning from the best to start, first they actually just get successful, then they learn from others to continue and grow their success, usually at a much slower rate though.

Essentially, just go out and keep trying and learning from your experience, and wait for luck(while still trying).

Gates, Bezos, Musk, Buffet, Jobs, Rockefeller, Carnegie,.... you think they hired coaches before they got successful, went to coaching seminars? Read self-help books, Or they just went for it HARD?

Redundant post, of course action taking is important. All of these people had mentors and consultants on their journey though. Zuckerberg had Sean Parker within months of starting the initial project. Bill gates's mother was on the board of United Way with the CEO of IBM.

You learn the basics from Youtube, take action and refine as it goes. The Barry comes at it from the bitter socialist paradigm IMO. He makes some good points but ultimately he has an infectious victim mindset IMO. 

[Elliott]

2 hours ago, LordFall said:

. Zuckerberg had Sean Parker within months of starting the initial project.

 

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Bill gates's mother was on the board of United Way with the CEO of IBM.

And Zuck bought a seminar ticket from Parker, or it was 'luck'? Gates watched his mom's YouTube podcast? Or, luck, like Bobby was talking about?

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The Barry comes at it from the bitter socialist paradigm IMO. He makes some good points but ultimately he has an infectious victim mindset IMO. 

I only skimmed the video, I assume I would agree with this critique of yours. As you say though, don't through the baby out with the bath water for what Barry is saying either.

Edited 1 hour ago by Elliott

[Ulax]

Various fair points. For example, true about discounting luck, and survivorship bias.

But he also discounts the importance of maximising win percentage. In any domain, if you perform certain actions then you will more likely get better results. For example, the stat the creator makes about businesses that fold doesn't take into account how skilled the CEO was at business. I mean some business founders are probably ex goldman sachs CEOs, and others are porn addicts who jerk off between business calls. Its silly to think that doesn't make a big difference.