Paul KilloranFounder & CEO of Ex Ordo
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GYPSYsGen Y Protagonists & Special Yuppies
Happiness = Reality - Expectations
Lucy’s Grandparents
Baby Boomer Career Path Expectations
Baby Boomer Career Path Reality
Lush Green Lawn WITH FLOWERS
FACT #1 GYPSYs Are Wildly Ambitious
“a fulfilling career”
FACT #2 GYPSYs Are Delusional
spe-cial| ‘speSHel | adjective
better, greater, or otherwise different from what is usual.
Lucy’s Pre-Workforce Expectations
GYPSYs Are Taunted
GYPSYs Are Taunted
Stay wildly ambitious
Stay wildly ambitious
Stop thinking that you’re special
Stay wildly ambitious
Stop thinking that you’re special
Ignore everyone else
Paul GrahamCo-founder Y Combinator
“Schlep Blindness”http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html
A company is defined by the schleps it will undertake.
Your unconscious won't even let you see ideas that
involve painful schleps.
That's schlep blindness.
The most valuable antidote to schlep blindness is probably ignorance.
Maybe that's one reason the most successful startups of
all so often have young founders.
“What problem do I wish someone else
would solve for me?”
Elon MuskPayPal, Tesla Motors & SpaceX
SpaceX Falcon 9First Upright Landing of a 1st Stage Rocket
Videohttps://youtu.be/Y3XyQHK3Eqw
Build Stuff That Matters
Seth GodinAuthor, Entrepreneur & Marketer
“Choose Your Role”http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/04/choose-your-role.html
In many creative endeavours, we encounter:
The producer, the director, the star and the star's assistant.
The producer initiates.
The producer says “yes.”
The director (and often, the writer) determines the plot, makes the decisions, owns the quality of what
is produced.
The star is a celebrity, the draw, the one we want a selfie with.
The star auditions and the star waits to be picked.
And the star's assistant? He gets coffee, copyedits, and generally
gets unglamorous stuff done, but gets the satisfaction of steady work
plus the chance to say he works for a star.
A survey of high school students found that they'd rather be a star's assistant than a judge, a senator or
a CEO when they grew up.
Safety near the spotlight.
I've done all of these jobs (sometimes at the same time, on
the same project) and, for the right project, you can choose
from any of them as well.
The assistant can't do the work without a star.
The assistant can't do the work without a star.
The star needs to be chosen by the director.
The assistant can't do the work without a star.
The star needs to be chosen by the director.
And the director needs a producer.
The assistant can't do the work without a star.
The star needs to be chosen by the director.
And the director needs a producer.
But the producer, the producer gets to decide.
It's easy to be seduced into believing that you must wait to be picked, and even easier to worship those that have.
It's far more interesting and generous, I think, to find the leverage and the guts
you need to produce…
…to become the the one who says “go”.
The End@dancinpaul
ReferencesWhy Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy
http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-generation-y-yuppies-are-unhappy.html
Schlep Blindnesshttp://paulgraham.com/schlep.html
SpaceX Lands Falcon 9 1st Stagehttps://youtu.be/Y3XyQHK3Eqw
Choose Your Rolehttp://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/
2016/04/choose-your-role.html