Running the Distance, Maintaining High Standards, and Naval's Guide

Welcome back to the Z Fellows newsletter! Every Monday we share 3 ideas - to help you build companies, ship products, and create your life's work.

1: Tim Grover on Speed

Tim Grover was the personal trainer of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.

“You don’t have that much time. If you want to win, a marathon is a sprint.

When people use the marathon/sprint line, they’re usually trying to say, Pace yourself, you have a long way to go. That may be true, but most likely, it just rationalizes an excuse. Slow down. What’s the rush? Take your time. Don’t overdo it.

No matter how long the distance, you have to treat every step as if it’s the most important because it is.

We’re talking about Winning here, not finishing. Every team finishes the season. Only one will win the title.”

Source: W1NNING by Tim Grover

2: Mr. Beast on Quality and Work Ethic

A leaked 37-page onboarding document revealed the strategy behind Mr. Beast’s YouTube empire.

“I just want to do what makes me happy and ultimately the viewers happy… But this is the one thing I will never compromise on, I have zero issues throwing away a multi-million dollar video if I don’t think it’s up to my standards and is good for the audience. We must always be improving and innovating.”

“Obviously we want grinders that put in the hours and love you guys to death that do. But at the end of the day you will be judged on results, not hours. We are a results based company. Get shit done and move the goalpost!”

Source: Leaked PDF

3: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

Naval Ravikant is the co-founder, chairman, and former CEO of AngelList. In this podcast, David Senra discusses the key lessons he’s learned from reading the Almanac of Naval Ravikant.

Here are a few of my takeaways:

1) Career and Education The internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven’t figured this out yet.

2) Reading I probably read one to two hours a day. That puts me in the top .00001 percent. I think that alone accounts for any material success I’ve had in my life and any intelligence I might have.

3) Wealth Creation You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At Scale.

4) Specific Knowledge Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine intellectual curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now. Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but look like work to others.

5) Decision Making Simple heuristic: If you’re evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path more painful in the short term.

6) Happiness A calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love. These things cannot be bought, they must be earned.

7) Miscellaneous To make an original contribution, you have to be irrationally obsessed with something. Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true. Health, love, and your mission, in that order. Nothing else matters.

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See you next Monday,

- The Z Fellows Team.