Shane Snow Quotes

#1. simplification often makes the difference between good and amazing.

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#2. There are a lot of great inventors and improvers in the world. But those who hack world-class success tend to be the ones who can focus relentlessly on a tiny number of things. In other words, to soar, we need to simplify.

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#3. Being able to pick and read good waves is almost more important than surfing well.

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#4. We're multiplying our capabilities as a civilization and yet we still accept the notion that important societal progress, like combating inequality and crime - or even innovating in government and medicine - must take generations.

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#5. Working smart is harder than working hard. It's just less visible, and we care too much about what others see.

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#6. By teaching tools and problem solving instead of memorization and by hiring only teachers with master's degrees, Finland created a higher educational platform that gave its kids an advantage. That's how its school system shot to number one.*

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#7. OFTEN, THE THING HOLDING us back from success is our inability to say no.

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#8. the secret to harnessing momentum is to build up potential energy, so that unexpected opportunities can be amplified.

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#9. Genius has less to do with the size of your mind than how open it is.

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#10. Effort for the sake of effort is as foolish a tradition as paying dues. How much better is hard work when it's amplified by a lever? Platforms teach us skills and allow us to focus on being great, rather than reinventing wheels or repeating ourselves.

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#11. True success is not defined by how much money do I make, how well do I speak, how well do I deal with the subjects I deal with," he says. "But how great of a father I am.

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#12. Great stories build relationships and make people care. Those two things are necessary to change anything.

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#13. Intuition is the result of nonconscious pattern recognition,

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#14. Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I've found, however, is work.

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#15. New ideas emerge when you question the assumptions upon which a problem is based

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