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24 Ways to Outgrow & Outlearn Everyone You Know - Etienne Garbugli / Product Design & Marketing Consultant -
“ You are the dumbest you'll ever be right now. - Tom Lehman, Rap Genius
“ You are the dumbest you'll ever be right now. - Tom Lehman, Rap Genius And that's actually kind of inspiring...
“ In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: Cash and Experience. - Harold Geneen, Businessman Take the experience first. The cash will come later.
1. “ Focus on the learning process and not the result. - Jacques Martin, Ice Hockey Coach
2. Be proactive. Decide what you want to learn. Politics End-to-end marketing skills
3. Seek experiences that throw you out of your comfort zone.
4. Accept growth. You’re not who you were yesterday and you certainly won’t be the same tomorrow.
5. Have postmortems for every important things you do. Deconstruct successes and failures.
6. Be honest with yourself. There’s always a good excuse when you’re looking for one... Wrong timing Competition Bad economy Bad luck
7. Don’t be afraid to admit when you don’t know something.
8. Read, teach, click, study. Do everything you can to learn but, do it with a plan.
9. Take things apart. Learn to deconstruct to understand how things were made and recognize patterns. Reverse engineering really is an underrated skill.
10. “ Always seek negative feedback, even though it can be mentally painful. - Elon Musk, Inventor and Entrepreneur Integrate a feedback loop straight into your activities.
10. “ Always seek negative feedback, even though it can be mentally painful. - Elon Musk, Inventor and Entrepreneur Integrate a feedback loop straight into your activities. Was this slide helpful? Yes No
11. Listen. Knowledge doesn't always come from the expected places. Anyone can teach you a thing or two. In this presentation: √ A statistician √ An advertiser √ An inventor √ An author √ Entrepreneurs √ A ice hockey coach
12. Seek out marginal voices. Most of what we see and hear is the work of a few million people. But, there’s more than 7.2 billion of us... Here Here Here And here
13. Avoid automatisms. Carve your own path to knowledge. or or
14. Connect and help out. Reply to everyone. Dear prince of Nigeria, Thank you for your generous offer. I’m glad I can be of assistance with your
14. Connect and help out. Reply to everyone. Dear prince of Nigeria, Well... Maybe not everyone. Thank you for your generous offer. I’m glad I can be of assistance with your
15. See no competition. Learn by sharing and interacting with so-called competitors.
16. Don’t settle. Things will get in the way, but don’t settle.
17. “ Be polite, courteous, and gentle, but ignore comments, praise, and criticism from people you wouldn't hire. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author and Statistician …or people you wouldn’t want to become.
18. “ You don't know what you know until you write it down. Write it to understand it. - Alan Webber, Fast Company Creator Write everything you learn. This presentation is the result of six years of writing. Read How
19. Revisit what you know. Track your progress. Be objective. Flamenco Guitar Architecture
20. “ Good entrepreneurs learn from their own mistakes. Great entrepreneurs learn from others mistakes. - Dave McClure, Entrepreneur Great self-learners also learn from others mistakes.
21. “ Remain humble to keep on learning and growing. - JF Bouchard, Sid Lee Co-Founder It’s when you start thinking that you know that you stop learning and become complacent.
22. Prioritize. It's impossible to be an expert at everything. You push one side and the other side breaks. Red
23. Knowing is only half the battle. And do And don’t do Things you know Focus here Things you don’t know / /
24. “ Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. - George Bernard Shaw, Playwright Strike a balance between knowledge and action.
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