How to Be Successful

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Metadata

  • Author: Sam Altman
  • Full Title: How to Be Successful
  • Category:articles
  • Summary: This document provides 13 thoughts on how to achieve outlier success, with a focus on entrepreneurship and personal development. The author emphasizes the importance of exponential growth, long-term thinking, self-belief, independent thinking, sales skills, risk-taking, focus, hard work, boldness, and building a network. Additionally, the author recommends being willful and hard to compete with, while acknowledging and working around weaknesses. The document provides practical advice on how to cultivate these qualities and behaviors, with an emphasis on personal growth and fulfilling one’s potential.
  • URL: https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful/

Highlights

  • You also want to be an exponential curve yourself—you should aim for your life to follow an ever-increasing up-and-to-the-right trajectory. It’s important to move towards a career that has a compounding effect—most careers progress fairly linearly. (View Highlight)
  • 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—your rate of learning should always be high. As your career progresses, each unit of work you do should generate more and more results. There are many ways to get this leverage, such as capital, technology, brand, network effects, and managing people. (View Highlight)