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Tyler Cowen: Identifying Talent and Measuring Organizational Capital

"World of DaaS"

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Is There a Way of Measuring Ambition?

I suspect it's something you 're born with or not. You can cultivate it at the margin. There's some kind of relentlessness, durability, persistence that characterizes a lot of very top performers - but it's fairly rare. Think usually it's worth more than i cue, provided you're like, smart enough. People who are not that ambitious actually have a hard time faking it. It's probably better for the world. Yes, elon mus could retire and not spend all the money he has, but he's driven to do whatever he's going to do. This is a big part of it, but i'm partly a fan of peter teal's question

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