Connect the Dots Backwards

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Hi everyone, on this episode we cover some advice that Steve Jobs once gave me, "connect the dots backwards". Learn to connect the dots backwards and reverse engineer exactly what you want. Key Moments: [1:31] The reason I chose Tulane Law School [2:50] Weighing my two job offers [7:30] Being a millionaire nine months out of law school [9:28] How I connected the dots backwards Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I remember Steve Jobs telling me specifically David because I was way outside
0:05.5	attached to outcomes.
0:07.2	Everything was perspective and I was anxious and he said David you can only connect
0:12.1	the dots backwards.
0:13.4	This is entrepreneurs the playbook.
0:15.8	Now one of the things I did differently and it's helped me in business a lot
0:20.3	is that I reverse engineer things.
0:22.1	I was blessed to run Samsung's first phone
0:24.1	division before I met Lee Steinberg and I worked with Steve Jobs and Michael
0:28.6	Dell of course Bill Gates because we were the first Windows CE device, the world's first smartphone back in 1999.
0:35.9	But I remember Steve Jobs telling me specifically, David, because I was way outside,
0:41.5	attached to outcomes.
0:43.2	Everything was perspective and I was anxious.
0:46.0	And he said, David, you can only connect the dots backwards.
0:50.9	I said, oh, that's an interesting concept.
0:53.1	So I actually did that naturally when I was going to law school.
0:57.1	I decided my goal of going to law school
0:59.8	was not to be a great lawyer.
1:01.4	It was to be rich.
1:03.0	That was my goal.
1:04.4	So what was my main concern of a law school?
1:07.4	What job paid the most money out of law school
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