My Conversation With Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Colossus & Positive Sum

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Ask, “What example do I want Pierce to see?” Then make your daily behavior answer it.
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Biography matters most after achievement: what happens once people get what they wanted?
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When hiring a CEO, choose someone who has already proved they are great at being a CEO.
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Devoting yourself to one person or a small group can matter as much as building a globally dominant company.
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The goal is not helping as many people as possible. It is bringing enormous unrealized potential into existence.
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The deepest kindness is betting on someone’s potential before others recognize it, sometimes before they recognize it themselves.
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Jim Sinegal argued that leaders spending less than 90% of their time teaching are not doing their job.
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Stopping the commercial side does not mean stopping meaningful work. Creative and service roles can define the next life chapter.
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Repeatedly audition people for overlooked potential, then help the world recognize what you saw.
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Deep friendship and letting people in can become essential values even after years of treating them as irrelevant.
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Use the moments that make you feel most alive as signposts for how to live.
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Finding your distinctive thing is only the beginning. Meaningful work requires fostering it through hardship for life.
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Over-communicate important decisions and assumptions before misunderstandings turn into increasingly strange situations.
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A guiding principle can organize your life more powerfully than a specific goal.
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Relationships compound from one conversation into respect, ongoing exchange, and opportunities impersonal outreach cannot create.
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Goal orientation is a personal operating style, not a universally superior way to live.
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Search for the passion that keeps pulling you back for high-volume practice. It may be your compounding advantage.
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Find the activity where enjoyment gives you endless repetitions, then build your capabilities around that unusually durable practice.
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The most exciting work is discovering talented, relatively unknown people before everyone else recognizes them.
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Everyone has something distinctive, shaped by their experiences, wiring, and naturally endowed gifts.
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Pouring yourself into useful work creates an experience people do not want to abandon once they have felt it.

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