Zuckerberg Spent 80% of His Time at Facebook Outside Comfort Zone
Chandra Narayanan · Chandra Narayanan: Top 5 Lessons from Leading Analytics at Facebook | E1126 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Mar 13, 2024 · at 10:04
Chandra Narayanan, founder of Sundial and former head of analytics at Facebook, reflects on internal Facebook Q&A insights from Mark Zuckerberg about personal productivity and comfort zones.
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“Mark once said in a Q and A in internal to Facebook that he said that he, and a lot of the reasons why we do that is because of how secure we are as people. And he would basically say that Something like, I don't know what exact number, but he said like, 80% of his time, he is, he does activity that's outside his comfort zone, which basically means that he's trying to be on this loping growth curve rather than the flat curve. I think most people can't do that because they're not secure enough to do it. But if you are able to do that, I think you'll have the greatest impact you can in the shortest amount of time.”
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