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0 9760 As a founder, your primary role is not to sign documents or to raise money or to make speeches
9760 13040 at events or to have fireside chats.
13040 19440 Your primary role is to contemplate, contemplate about your values and your vision.
19440 23920 You are the chief contemplation officer of your startup.
23920 30800 Your primary role is to become a thought leader in whatever you do and inspire others.
30800 35800 In the rush of operations, you might come to believe that restless execution is the
35800 37600 way to go.
37600 43600 It can also make you feel very busy, very productive and very important.
43600 49720 People across the startup ecosystem often confuse working hard and long hours with working
49720 52160 in the right direction.
52160 55440 You tend to differentiate between the two.
55440 60600 Constantly being connected with the outside world might seem like an obvious trait to
60600 62040 possess.
62040 64600 But what you really need to do is the opposite.
64600 69640 You need to cut off from the external and go inward.
69640 75360 You need to spend hours and hours doing nothing but thinking deeply about your values and
75360 76840 your vision.
76840 81520 Assuming that you possess the energy, ability and perseverance.
81520 87760 It is this act of contemplation that will provide you with the insights that are almost
87760 91000 never visible on the surface.
91000 96640 Those insights will polish your vision slowly and steadily.
96640 101160 Contemplation allows you to master clarity of thought and communication.
101160 104000 That is a must-have ability for a leader.
104000 110360 You must be able to clearly lay out the path for others to follow.
110360 113760 And you need to contemplate silently.
113760 118120 Don't announce it to the world or discuss it on social media.
118120 124680 If you merely change your designation to Chief Contemplation Officer and post it online or
124680 129600 announce to the world, look, I went on my contemplation walk today.
129600 137000 You are still thinking about outside rather than inside and that change will be superficial.
137000 139240 It will not help you.
139240 146840 You have to talk less, physically reduce your quantity of speech, online or offline.
146840 150200 Talk less, think more.
150200 155440 Talking and looking outside consumes a lot of energy.
155440 160320 Spend less energy reading or replying to posts online.
160320 167320 Ask yourself, is this reading helping me get better or is it just entertaining me?
167320 171000 Use that energy instead to think deeply.
171000 176240 And don't rush back to instantly announce your deep thinking to the world.
176240 178040 Forget the external.
178040 179440 Look inward.
179440 181000 Stay inward.
181000 185480 As a founder, contemplation is your core technology.
185480 186880 Galileo used it.
186880 188480 Mozart used it.
188480 190120 Shakespeare used it.
190120 192080 Alan Turing used it.
192080 194440 You can use it too.
194440 199000 If you need a systematic program to develop your contemplation skills, you can use the
199000 203840 Core Level 1 program on adiosworld.com.
203840 210360 Next, you must pursue a hobby regularly.
210360 213480 Pursuing a hobby helps you do your work better.
213480 220120 It helps create new neural connections that might help you see things in a different light.
220120 224920 Apart from being a waste of time, it can actually help you become better at your work.
224920 229920 You could add new flavors in your work by finding inspiration from other fields.
229920 234280 Say music, art, poetry, theatre, sports.
234280 237800 Your hobby might also help you look at something differently.
237800 242960 For instance, if you're learning to paint or playing a sport, drawing analogies between
242960 248520 your hobby and your work can open completely fresh perspectives from which to look at your
248520 250480 work.
250480 255640 Reading more about those art forms and especially about the people who have been masters of those
255640 262160 fields, their approaches can open new doors of thinking altogether.
262160 265320 Pursue a hobby regularly.
265320 272640 Find a teacher in your town or online that usually helps maintain consistency.
272640 274240 This isn't about your startup.
274240 280160 This is about you, how you would like to live your next few years as you work on your
280160 282080 startup.
282080 287800 Would you prefer restless execution or contemplative execution?
287800 293160 What you prefer to do will also determine how you feel on a regular basis and in life
293160 295600 in general.
295600 301800 If you're destined to succeed using restless execution, imagine what you could do with
301840 304400 contemplative execution.
304400 310320 If you're destined to fail using restless execution, your chances of success increase
310320 315000 dramatically with contemplative execution.
315000 321400 If say 90% of the startups fail, that may just sound like 90 out of 100 fail, but that
321400 325920 also means that you have a 90% chance of failing.
325920 328580 Think about that for a second.
328580 334940 What should you do differently that others haven't done so you succeed?
334940 342460 If you just continue to do what those 90% of the startups have done, aren't you ensuring
342460 346020 that you would also be one of them?
346020 349420 And don't think this startup is the one, that's it.
349420 350980 It might not be.
350980 353900 And for all you know, it shouldn't be.
353900 358060 You will see it is a small component and you will eventually build something much more
358060 360420 important.
360420 362820 Focus on the process of improving yourself.
362820 364020 Trust the process.
364020 366100 It works.
366100 372500 There are many, many ways to create something large, but there is only one way to create
372500 375020 something truly inspiring.
375020 377940 And that is contemplation.
377940 384140 Think about someone in the startup world who did something truly inspiring.
384140 389980 Do you think they spent a lot of time contemplating or a lot of time trying to connect with as
389980 397060 many people online and attending as many startup events as possible?
397060 399900 Contemplation on the right values.
399900 402180 Contemplation on a non-financial vision.
402180 405460 That is your primary role as a founder.
405460 410780 Your justice to that role and you shall receive psychological and financial insurance
410780 413500 for the rest of your life.
413500 421820 The words values, vision and contemplation occur about 180 times in this course, while
421820 426180 the word valuation occurs about 25 times.
426180 432140 If you can follow the same proportion while running your startup, no one in this world
432140 435260 can stop you from succeeding.
435260 439100 So dissolve everything that is around you.
439100 443820 Forget about others and how they view you and what they think of you.
443820 448060 Focus only on yourself and do the right thing.
448060 449540 So go for it.
449540 456420 Use contemplation on your values and your vision as your neutrons and split that atom.
456420 456980 All the best.
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