10 of my founder friends are forces of nature.

Their startups are now worth $400M+ each.

4 behaviors I've observed:

Effective people optimize for what compounds—not just quick wins.

They train themselves to get a dopamine hit when they help their future selves—even if they receive no immediate benefit from the action.

What compounds:

• Building audiences
• Relationships
• Investing $

In school, we learn by being curious and by accepting when we're wrong.

As adults, we forget we're still students—of life.

Effective people recreate environments where they're still told they're wrong:

They befriend blunt, independent-minded thinkers who'll call them out.

Effective people defer stuff that doesn’t matter, and always get started on what does.

Momentum is about rate of iteration and persistence, not brilliance.

I don’t know one force of nature founder who isn’t strongly biased toward taking action.

Success therefore appears to be two things:

1. Point yourself in the right direction.

2. Do the work even when you're not in the mood to.

Both are necessary.

(Plus luck and privilege, of course.)