Mastery
topic on 10 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes · said 24 times in 10 episodes since 2018
the Knowledge Project 8 
My First Million 4 
Founder's Journal 3 
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- 20VC: How To Assess Risk and Value Creation, Why It Would Be Better If VCs Had Smaller Portfolios & How To Optimise Internal Decision-Making with Misha Esipov, Founder & CEO @ Nova Credit
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Susan Cain: Self-confidence comes from skill mastery, not vice versa
“Self-confidence comes from mastery and not the other way around. So we tend to think, you know, we live in a culture that's like really big on self-confidence. So we see self-confidence as the key to everything else. But in fact, if you master a skill, you bec…”
MacAskill: Passion stems from mastering a subject rather than preceding it
“Passion tends to result from mastery of a subject or mastery of an area rather than vice versa.”
Greene: Handwriting notes fosters deeper thinking than typing on a computer
“Writing things out by hand has a logic to it. So when I'm going through a book, and I'm taking notes, and I'm scrawling with my fountain pen on a card, I'm actually thinking more deeply than when I'm sitting there typing stuff on the computer. I don't know how…”
Greene: Constant distraction deprives the brain of space for unconscious idea processing.
“The way the human brain works is your best ideas come to you when you're not thinking about them. You know if you're sitting there always doing other things and chatting with people and texting them, The brain won't have the mental space to unconsciously proce…”