I was listening to this great book by Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg. I thought I will share some great thoughts:
1) Books calls people who start something new 'first' -pioneers and others who start later as "Settlers".
Normally we think pioneers excel and get most advantage but this is not true many times. In fact Settlers get many advantages :
-They learn from pioneers mistakes.
-They adjust to consumers taste by the time concept has already been introduced.
-By the time technological changes happen and work in their favor while pioneers already tried and probably given up.
2) Entrepreneurs are known as risk takers which seems to indicate you may just give up your job or studies and jump to business .
However entrepreneurs who started side businesses with their day job had 33% more chances of success.
Many successful entrepreneurs were risk averse. Bill Gates simply did not drop Harvard.
His company Microsoft was already making sales at that time and he took 'one year leave of absence' first before dropping out.
3) Strategic Procrastination helps creativity. Leonardo da Vinci took several years before completing Monalisa. In between he was working on many other different areas /experiments /projects and frustrated not to complete Monalisa. But he gained lot of insights from his other experiments and experiences which eventually got reflected to Monalisa - making it even more artistic. Author suggests to give some Strategic pauses in middle of the tasks.
Sometimes when you may be half asleep and a great idea may come to you if the Task is incomplete. If the Task is completed your brain may stop thinking about it and may not further generate ideas.
1) Books calls people who start something new 'first' -pioneers and others who start later as "Settlers".
Normally we think pioneers excel and get most advantage but this is not true many times. In fact Settlers get many advantages :
-They learn from pioneers mistakes.
-They adjust to consumers taste by the time concept has already been introduced.
-By the time technological changes happen and work in their favor while pioneers already tried and probably given up.
2) Entrepreneurs are known as risk takers which seems to indicate you may just give up your job or studies and jump to business .
However entrepreneurs who started side businesses with their day job had 33% more chances of success.
Many successful entrepreneurs were risk averse. Bill Gates simply did not drop Harvard.
His company Microsoft was already making sales at that time and he took 'one year leave of absence' first before dropping out.
3) Strategic Procrastination helps creativity. Leonardo da Vinci took several years before completing Monalisa. In between he was working on many other different areas /experiments /projects and frustrated not to complete Monalisa. But he gained lot of insights from his other experiments and experiences which eventually got reflected to Monalisa - making it even more artistic. Author suggests to give some Strategic pauses in middle of the tasks.
Sometimes when you may be half asleep and a great idea may come to you if the Task is incomplete. If the Task is completed your brain may stop thinking about it and may not further generate ideas.
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