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SOLVED with Mark Manson

How to go from Boring to Extraordinary (ft. Codie Sanchez)

May 8, 2024
In this engaging discussion, Codie Sanchez, an entrepreneur and investor renowned for her unique approach to business, shares her journey of transforming boring business ventures into a successful enterprise. She advocates for questioning societal norms, delves into financial literacy, and emphasizes the significance of skill acquisition over shortcuts. Codie also reflects on the journey from corporate dissatisfaction to creative fulfillment and addresses the challenges women face in the finance world, all while promoting a balanced path to personal and professional happiness.
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Quick takeaways

  • In a technological age, early adopters gain disproportionate rewards highlighting the importance of staying ahead of advancements.
  • Current societal trends of low efforts present an ideal window for high performers to stand out and excel.

Deep dives

Durant's Lessons: Technology and Inequality

The historian Will Durant and his wife Ariel condensed insights from their exhaustive human civilization project into The Lessons of History, highlighting a crucial observation that technology advances promise greater equality but often result in greater inequality. Noteworthy throughout history, technology disproportionately rewards higher skilled and more driven individuals who leverage advancements before others, echoing from the wheel's invention to the modern microprocessor era.

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