Dickie Bush Quotes

Impatience with actions. Patience with results.

There's no such thing as failure.

You either win or you learn.

Tomorrow is a great day to realize no one is coming to save you.

Use Twitter to attract like-minded people.

1. Tweet about what you're learning.
2. Let others find you.
3. Ask them what they're learning.

Repeat.

It's magical how quickly this happens.

Friction is the world's most underappreciated force.

It works against most people. But we can leverage it to work for us.

• To do more of something, reduce the friction.
• To do less of something, increase the friction.

Minimize start-up costs, maximize effectiveness.

Reminder to self: be aggressively patient.

Execute relentlessly in the short-term. But zoom out to let those efforts compound.

Impatience with actions. Patience with results.

Doing what everyone else does:

Guaranteed to avoid catastrophe.

Guaranteed to attain mediocrity.

The smartest thing you can do: realize you aren't that smart.

The best operators know what they know, but more importantly what they don't know.

Double down on what you know. Surround yourself with people who know everything else.

Don't overcomplicate writing.

The definition of a good writer:

Someone who makes their point crystal clear.

Take action when motivation is high.

But design your systems to work when motivation is low.

Humans work better with binary rules than spectrum rules.

The best example: the speed limit versus red lights.

Everyone speeds a little bit, but almost no one runs red lights.

This idea can be applied everywhere.

Picture a Venn diagram:

Left circle: things people struggle to do.

Right circle: things people don't regret doing.

Overlap: things you should do more often.

Millions of dollars are spent on diets.

Very few dollars on information diets.

• Sugar leads to diabetes of the body.
• The internet leads to diabetes of the brain.
• Glucose monitors help manage our food diet.

We need something similar to monitor our information diet.

Focusing on one thing leads to quality, consistency, and credibility.

A good mental model for getting smarter: am I asking more questions than answers I'm giving?