🔭 Personal Mission Statement (North Star)

Question to ask yourself: Out of all the projects that I worked on in the last few years, what did I get most excited about? (no matter the outcome/motivation/etc)

EXAMPLE: Create significant, sustainable value for society through technological and business innovation. I want to use the wealth and insights this generates to provide my family, friends, and myself with joy and fulfillment in life.

🔪 Finding Your Edge

Question to ask yourself: What is my superpower? What does my mix of skills and experience that make me uniquely positioned to create?

Ideas Pt I: Where do ideas come from? | Entrepreneur First

Ideas Pt II: Finding your Edge

EXAMPLES

• Tech: Building best in class digital products that users love combined with deep insight into the electricity market.
• Ops: Setting up simple and well thought-out processes
• Domains: Energy, Fintech, Software.

🤺 Finding Your Ikagi

Question to ask yourself: What is my superpower? Why do I wake up in the morning

Finding Your Ikigai

What am I good at?

What do I love?

What does the world need?

What can I get paid for?

🔮 Future visualization

Envision how you want your life to look in 2, 5, 10 years from now and the person you want to become. Write it down.

Where I want to be in 5 years

• Working on a long term project I am passionate about
• Live in a house with a garden that allows me to spend time outside during the day
• No belly, running regularly to keep my cardio vascular fitness levels up

Who do I want to grow to be

• Someone inspirational, humble and enjoyable to be around
• Someone who hosts, connects, provides a platform
• Someone happy who is not derailed by individual opinions

🤔 Core Beliefs

Strong opinions, weakly held. Hypotheses that you have about the world, the future and the development of technology & society.

• AI will automate lots of tasks and become the most prominent and impactful technology
• Homes as a service and community rather than stationary family owned asset.
• Climate will become the most pressing global issue until 2040. Technology will solve it and there will be more challenges looming on the horizon.

👷 How to build the future

Statements that you strongly believe in and want to remind myself of regularly.

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• Burnout does not come from working too hard. It comes from working on things that are not working or that are not interesting enough.
• Momentum is energizing.
• Most people don't take enough risk - especially early in their careers.
• Be a doer not a talker.
• Go all in on one thing instead of working on lots of things.
• Ask for what you want.
• Make a super long term commitment. It is worth waiting because I will make far more money by doing this one thing really well than lots of small things along the way.
• It is so easy to become busy with things that are urgent but unimportant.
• We have a fixed budget on cognitive output per day. Up to us how to spend it.