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> even if you only accomplish a small portion of it, you're still really successful. And I imagine he quotes Wayne Gretzky. The thing is, making the wildly am
by jacques_chester 12y ago
> even if you only accomplish a small portion of it, you're still really successful.
And I imagine he quotes Wayne Gretzky.
The thing is, making the wildly ambitious attempt isn't free. You amplify your risk: both the probability of failure (due to an impossible goal, or skipping intermediate steps) and the cost of failure (all or nothing! death or glory!).
Wayne Gretzky missed 100% of shots he didn't take. But each such shot was cheap. He took thousands of shots at goal in his time ... none of which was a single gamble that could cost him his house, mental health or career prospects.
- ZenoArrow 12y agoWhy does having ambition require you to skip out intermediate steps? Does ambition necessitate impatience in your mind?
- DennisP 12y agoExactly. If you skip intermediate steps, then you can't get the partial success Diamandis talks about. Bootstrapping is compatible with ambition. (And thank you, ZenoArrow, for the point on intermediate steps. :)
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- jacques_chester 12y agoIt doesn't require it, but some things simply take more time and effort than some visionaries are prepared to crawl through.