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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. | |