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Keep Redefining What You Do

Naval

Naval Ravikant

Business, Technology

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

Keep redefining what you do until you're the best at what you do 0:00

Find founder-product-market fit 1:35

Transcript: http://nav.al/redefining

 

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0:00.0

We just finished talking about the importance of working hard and valuing your time.

0:05.0

Next, there's a few tweets on the topic of working for the long term.

0:11.0

The first tweet is, become the best in the world of what you do.

0:15.0

Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

0:18.0

If you really want to get paid in this world, you want to be number one at whatever it is that you're doing.

0:23.0

And it can be niche, that's the point.

0:25.0

It can literally be you're getting paid for just being you.

0:28.0

At this point, some of the more successful people in the world are that way.

0:31.0

Oprah gets paid for being Oprah.

0:33.0

Joe Rogan gets paid for being Joe Rogan.

0:35.0

And they're being authentic to themselves.

0:38.0

So what this tweet is trying to say simultaneously is that you want to be number one,

0:43.0

but you can keep changing what you do until you're number one.

0:46.0

You can't just pick something arbitrary.

0:48.0

You can't say, I'm going to be the fastest runner in the world and now you've got to beat the same bolt.

0:52.0

That's too hard of a problem.

0:53.0

But what you can do is you can keep changing what your objective is until it arrives to your specific knowledge,

1:00.0

your skill sets, your position, your capabilities, your location, your interests,

1:04.0

and then converges to making you number one.

1:07.0

So when you're searching for what to do, you actually have two different foci that you have to keep in mind at all points.

1:14.0

And one of those is, I want to be the best at what I do.

1:17.0

And the second is, what I do is flexible so that I am the best at it.

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