Courage not intellect.

the world will reward you in proportion to your courage, not your intellect. The most dangerous person in the world is the one who continues to show up every day, even when the rewards are not guaranteed. Your potential is determined by the amount of uncertainty you're able to tolerate and how long you can tolerate it for.

You can beat 99% of people if you can master the shame of rejection, the boredom of repetition, and the pain of feedback.

I was asked, if you could transfer only one trait to your son, what would it be? And I've really thought a lot about it. And I was like, all the traits, what I would transfer? And I think it's courage. Because if you don't have courage, nothing else matters.

What is courage to you?

Being willing to take action where there's a large short-term cost with an uncertain delayed benefit. So you basically have to be willing to get kicked in the nuts. And multiple times, and sometimes for extended durations, before the hope that you will get something. But you have to take jumps and you have to lose and you have to be willing to lose. And then realize that losing doesn't actually make you a loser because losing is the first signal on the path to winning. You have two paths, one that is guaranteed, which is that the path you're currently on will not get you where you wanna go. And the other path is not guaranteed to get you where you wanna go, but it's the only one where you have a shot where you do.