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🗓️ 9 March 2021
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Author of one of the best business books of all time, The Personal MBA, Josh Kaufman chats with Shane about rapid skill acquisition, mental models, decision making, overcoming fear and so much more.
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0:00.0 | going back to our conversation of Munger, he has a lot of very good quotes about, you know, |
0:07.0 | the best way to do well is to avoid making avoidable mistakes. |
0:13.4 | There's a certain context in which that's true, and those are the high stakes things that |
0:17.8 | are difficult to reverse that are very expensive that are very destructive. |
0:21.8 | Yeah, those are the things you absolutely don't want to screw up. |
0:25.8 | But on the other end of the spectrum, where you have more latitude, screwing up more |
0:30.9 | is a way to increase your rate of learning and to increase your knowledge, and that gathering |
0:37.4 | of knowledge has compound returns in and of itself. |
0:41.0 | And so in many areas of both life and business, more experimentation means more mistakes, |
0:46.4 | but it also means more results and more growth. |
1:05.1 | Welcome to the Knowledge Project Podcast. |
1:07.1 | I'm your host, Shane Kersh. |
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1:28.8 | Today, I'm speaking with Josh Kaupner. |
1:31.0 | Josh wrote one of the best business books of all time, the Personal MBA. |
1:35.0 | In this conversation, we talk about rapid scale acquisition, mental models, decision-making, |
1:40.0 | overcoming fear, and so much more. |
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