Tim Ferriss on tolerable mediocrity, false idols, diversifying your identity, and the advice he gives startups – Signal v. Noise
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- Full Title: Tim Ferriss on tolerable mediocrity, false idols, diversifying your identity, and the advice he gives startups – Signal v. Noise
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- Summary: Tim Ferriss discusses the danger of tolerating mediocrity in your job and the importance of amplifying discomfort for positive change. He emphasizes diversifying your identity and expertise to avoid being pigeonholed in one area. Ferriss advises startups to focus on perfecting one key feature rather than chasing multiple ideas to succeed.
- URL: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2734-tim-ferriss-on-tolerable-mediocrity-false-idols-diversifying-your-identity-and-the-advice-he-gives-startups
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- According to Ferriss, feeling comfortable at your job can be a trap. “It’s worse to tolerate your job than to hate it because, if the pain is painful enough, you’ll make a change,” he says. “But if it’s tolerable mediocrity, and you’re like, ‘Well, you know it could be worse. At least I’m getting paid.’ Then you wind up in a job that is slowly killing your soul and you’re allowing that to happen. Comfort can be a very, very dangerous thing.” (View Highlight)
- If your job is mediocre, sit down and do an exercise on paper to really run through what your life is going to look like in two, three, five years if you continue to do what you’re doing. What options are you going to have? If you don’t have kids now, but you’re going to have kids in five years, do you want to be in the same job at that point? What are your options going to be then? What is your risk tolerance going to be then? (View Highlight)
- “If your entire ego and identity is vested in your startup, where there are certainly factors outside of your control, you can get into a depressive funk that affects your ability to function. So, you should also, let’s say, join a rock climbing gym. Try to improve your time in the mile. Something like that. I recommend at least one physical activity. Then even if everything goes south — you have some horrible divorce agreement with your co-founder — if you had a good week and set a personal record in the gym or on the track or wherever, that can still be a good week.” (View Highlight)
- The biggest weakness I see is companies getting focused on implementing new features (View Highlight)
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