Daniel S Goldin

A lot of success comes not from special gift of intuition but a realistic recognition of one's own limitations.

If information isn't nurtured with action, it loses its power.

Nurture all new information and your progress will accelerate.

Success in career and in life isn’t just about understanding the parts.

It’s about seeing how they connect.

The hard reality is that adulthood is not necessarily an age. It's more a skill.

One of the things I’ve learned is that a lot of stress and anxiety comes from relying on certainty to feel safe in a world that was never built to be certain.

You can either take on the world or take on yourself.

There are leaders who butt their heads against the wall, hoping for change. Then there are leaders who think in multiple dimensions.

Success in amateur tennis comes from keeping the ball in play and allowing the opponent to make mistakes.

Similarly, in life, consistent effort and avoiding pitfalls can lead to better outcomes than sporadic moments of brilliance.

In life, as in science, the greatest discoveries are made by those who dare to persist when the path gets tough. It’s about pushing forward when others might give up, navigating uncertainty with determination and vision.

True leaders aren’t afraid to pause, question, and even push against the current if that’s what the moment calls for.

Maturity of craft is not being afraid to throw away far more than you keep.

Strategy always begins with honesty. If you can't be honest, your strategy won't work.

Questions to become honest:

- What are we bad at?
- What takes too long?
- What breaks under pressure?

What did I miss?

So much of winning comes down to three things (that rarely get taught):

1 / Enduring the pain of criticism.
2 / With that, getting over the fear of rejection.
3 / Leaning into the boredom of mental *and* physical repetition.

It's a curiosity to me why we never teach this from one generation to the next.

These attributes are not givens.

One of the hardest problems in deep tech is getting multidisciplinary teams to function as one.

The biggest difference between talkers vs. doers is that doers know that talk is expensive, not cheap.

Those who truly have the courage to climb know that the higher you go, the less oxygen there is — and the less room for waste.

To believe something strongly when it is clearly hard to define and prove, and has not been proven, is to be prejudiced.