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#002 - David Perell on Commitment, Contradictions, & Weirdos

Audience of One

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The Thing That I've Learned Is That When You Are Desperate to Succeed

"I didn't think about hugging the x-axis in terms of getting that last you know five ten percent which to your point is where all the alpha is," he said. "That desperation is what it takes to do great things and when you are yearning to achieve something you start dreaming about it." He added: "One of my cardinal questions is how do I do unreasonable things by being a reasonable person?"

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