1:14 · And that meant that I got the opportunity that I wanted. The goal that you're working towards can have nothing to do with business entrepreneurship, Y Combinator. This is just the example that I'm currently in, that I'm currently giving you. Whatever it is that you want to achieve, the only way you're going to achieve it is by maximizing the amount of opportunity you have for successful accomplishment. If there's only one piece of advice that you go through life with, let that be it. Let that be the driving principle that actually moves you towards where you're going to go. Because you can plan endlessly.
1:49 · But if you don't take opportunities, if you don't take action, success isn't going to come. A plan is only as valuable as its execution. That's all you need to know. It's simple, it's intuitive, and yet I don't think you're currently following this advice. So, stick around if you want more neuroscience, if you want to learn more about Y Combinator, if you want to hear about things that I'm curious about, that's exactly what I post here. And I hope to see you around. But I hope that answered your question why I got into Y Combinator.
0:25 · If you don't expose yourselves to opportunities for success, you can't expect success to pop into your life randomly one day. And success can be defined by any metric you could possibly want. It's entirely personal and entirely tailored to you, but whatever you personally define to be success, whatever success looks like, whatever a successful endeavor is, if you don't take steps to maximize your chance of being successful, you can't expect to be successful.
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