Ben Casnocha Quotes

#1. Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.

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#2. I'm skeptical of passive learning. If you don't write down what you're hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

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#3. I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

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#4. I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

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#5. I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

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#6. Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

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#7. Seeing what someone's reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking.

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#8. I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

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#9. Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.

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#10. Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

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#11. The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

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#12. I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

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#13. Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

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#14. It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

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#15. If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, you're not accomplishing very much.

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#16. Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

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