Chamath: Coleman Hughes's colorblindness framework would have saved years of self-sabotage
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Chamath Palihapitiya (venture capitalist) addresses author Coleman Hughes about how having a colorblindness framework in his twenties would have improved his productivity and career trajectory.
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“Had I had a framework, if I had your talk when I was in my twenties and thirties, I would have spared myself a lot of self-sabotage. Because what that does is when you feel these things and you don't have a framework to interpret it or to tolerate the anxiety, I would internalize that anxiety and I was a less productive person. And so if the goal was for me on behalf of my family or on behalf of people like me to make it. I would have gotten there much faster had I not gotten in my own way.”
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