Steven Bartlett
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And can I make that again tomorrow? And how does that look when we zoom out on a graph over the course of five or 10 years? It is profoundly pivotal.
So, you know, as an 18-year-old, your knowledge, of course, is going to matter. So I would read 10 pages of a book a week, a place to start there. And that will compound. The books will get increasingly more difficult and increasingly more challenging as you get off to the races. And you'll feel accomplished. You'll have that progress principle. You'll feel like you are making progress.
So, you know, as an 18-year-old, your knowledge, of course, is going to matter. So I would read 10 pages of a book a week, a place to start there. And that will compound. The books will get increasingly more difficult and increasingly more challenging as you get off to the races. And you'll feel accomplished. You'll have that progress principle. You'll feel like you are making progress.
So, you know, as an 18-year-old, your knowledge, of course, is going to matter. So I would read 10 pages of a book a week, a place to start there. And that will compound. The books will get increasingly more difficult and increasingly more challenging as you get off to the races. And you'll feel accomplished. You'll have that progress principle. You'll feel like you are making progress.
On skills, this is quite an interesting one because the thing that ends up making an 18-year-old valuable in the economy and in the working market is... and this is kind of paradoxical, isn't if they go and get common skills. Crazy thing about life is it doesn't necessarily reward you for common skills. It rewards you for having a rare and complementary skill stack.
On skills, this is quite an interesting one because the thing that ends up making an 18-year-old valuable in the economy and in the working market is... and this is kind of paradoxical, isn't if they go and get common skills. Crazy thing about life is it doesn't necessarily reward you for common skills. It rewards you for having a rare and complementary skill stack.
On skills, this is quite an interesting one because the thing that ends up making an 18-year-old valuable in the economy and in the working market is... and this is kind of paradoxical, isn't if they go and get common skills. Crazy thing about life is it doesn't necessarily reward you for common skills. It rewards you for having a rare and complementary skill stack.
So when we think about an entrepreneur, we think they have the skill of entrepreneurship. No, they have 10 underlying skills, which made them successful at entrepreneurship. And actually in life, the people that become number one in an industry aren't necessarily the best at any individual underlying skill, but they have the right set of rare and complementary skills.
So when we think about an entrepreneur, we think they have the skill of entrepreneurship. No, they have 10 underlying skills, which made them successful at entrepreneurship. And actually in life, the people that become number one in an industry aren't necessarily the best at any individual underlying skill, but they have the right set of rare and complementary skills.
So when we think about an entrepreneur, we think they have the skill of entrepreneurship. No, they have 10 underlying skills, which made them successful at entrepreneurship. And actually in life, the people that become number one in an industry aren't necessarily the best at any individual underlying skill, but they have the right set of rare and complementary skills.
If you're training to be a lawyer at this moment, instead of tripling down on law, what I would highly advise you to do at that age is to think about the rare and complementary skill that this industry is going to value over the next 10 years. I would recommend that you go and do one semester or one course on large language models and artificial intelligence. Because the lawyer that has that
If you're training to be a lawyer at this moment, instead of tripling down on law, what I would highly advise you to do at that age is to think about the rare and complementary skill that this industry is going to value over the next 10 years. I would recommend that you go and do one semester or one course on large language models and artificial intelligence. Because the lawyer that has that
If you're training to be a lawyer at this moment, instead of tripling down on law, what I would highly advise you to do at that age is to think about the rare and complementary skill that this industry is going to value over the next 10 years. I would recommend that you go and do one semester or one course on large language models and artificial intelligence. Because the lawyer that has that
isn't paid the same as the lawyer that's even 10% better at law. They are paid hundreds of percent more in terms of value if they have rare and complementary. The best football player in the world, Cristiano Ronaldo, that played at Manchester United, as you'll know, he's not the best at any individual skill.
isn't paid the same as the lawyer that's even 10% better at law. They are paid hundreds of percent more in terms of value if they have rare and complementary. The best football player in the world, Cristiano Ronaldo, that played at Manchester United, as you'll know, he's not the best at any individual skill.
isn't paid the same as the lawyer that's even 10% better at law. They are paid hundreds of percent more in terms of value if they have rare and complementary. The best football player in the world, Cristiano Ronaldo, that played at Manchester United, as you'll know, he's not the best at any individual skill.
He's not the best runner, not the best penalty taker, not the best... I'd go on and on and on. He's the best player in the world. The reason for that is he has the right set of rare and complementary skills that aren't often found in one person. Right.
He's not the best runner, not the best penalty taker, not the best... I'd go on and on and on. He's the best player in the world. The reason for that is he has the right set of rare and complementary skills that aren't often found in one person. Right.
He's not the best runner, not the best penalty taker, not the best... I'd go on and on and on. He's the best player in the world. The reason for that is he has the right set of rare and complementary skills that aren't often found in one person. Right.
So again, going back to this point of skills, I would tell April to think about the rare skill that's going to be complementary that her industry values and start compounding there. Number three was network. So this is every conversation you have. You don't realize at 18 years old that every conversation is a seed you're planting that may blossom in the next decade. 5, 10, 20, 30 years.