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Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent

Conversations with Tyler

CHAPTER

How to Boost Ambition

People are afraid to think really big for a number of reasons. One is that it would be an awful lot of work. But as an outside person, I'm like an instructor in some fitness class. And so I can tell someone who's already working as hard as they can. All right, push harder, right? That doesn't cost me any effort. A lot of my secret is just being the person who doesn't actually do the work and reshuffling networks.

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