Sam Parr: Start immediately because almost all project decisions are reversible
Sam Parr · Controversial Business Lessons From Napoleon, Edison, & Hitler (#369) · Oct 1, 2022 · at 30:35
Sam Parr (co-host of My First Million) argues against excessive planning, emphasizing that momentum matters because most decisions can be reversed.
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“It's a bullshit way to make you think that you actually are doing something when instead you should just start and figure it out along the way because virtually everything, not everything, but almost everything related to a project is reversible. And so you should always start. And so you should always just like, just make it happen and always have a bias to action because it also is intoxicating.”
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