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#292: Lessons and Warnings from Successful Risk Takers

The Tim Ferriss Show

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Advice for a Smart, Driven College Student About to Enter the Real World?

When he was a pharmocidical consultant, Aaron Carroll used to come home from work and work on his novel. "I found myself secretly working on it, you know, in the morning, storing meetings in the corner during office" He got fired because they figured out i wasn't doing any of the real work and I was actually working on my book. The writer says time is supervaluable; don't rely on someone else's path or definition of success that was created in the past.

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