A Comprehensive Overview of Shane Snow's Book, Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success

1. Smartcuts-Written by Shane
Snow
How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons
Accelerate Success
Presented By: Fianna McClain

2. What Are Smartcuts?
A Smarter
Way Of
Doing
Things
Speeds Success
While Creating Value
Shortcuts
With
Integrity

3. Find Your Warp Pipes In
Real Life!!

4. 1.) Shorten

5. Hacking The Ladder
• Traditional Paths Are
Too Slow-Not Viable If
You Want To Compete
And Innovate
• Work Smarter
• Don’t Get Stuck On
One Path-Switch
Ladders and Level Up

6. Training With Masters
Don’t Have An Informal Mentor That Spews A
List Of Steps To Take To Be Successful
 Have A Mentor Guide Your Journey
Develop A Personal Relationship
Have Vulnerability
Find Your Master Mentor

7. It’s Hard To Find Master Mentors
So What Else Can You Do?
Study Moves
That Make
Masters Great
Become a First Class
Listener That Has The
Ability to Spot Important
Details
It’s Not Only
About Luck

8. Failing Is Not Always Failure
Failure Has Increasingly Become Acceptable
You Might Actually Learn Something From Failing
The Low Social Consequence Of Failure Makes Taking
Risks Attractive

9. Failing Does Not Mean That You Will Do Better
Next Time
Attribution Theory-Do Not Attribute
Your Failures To External Factors Only, Look
Deeper And Find Out What You Could Have
Done Better
Learn From Other Peoples Failures

10. Rapid Feedback
The Closer The
Feedback Moves
Our Attention To
Ourselves, The
Worse It Is For Us
Negative Feedback Is
A Good Thing-Turn
Off The Part Of Your
Brain That Says “I
Failed” When You Get
Negative Feedback
Fail Fast and
Fail Often
Turn Tiny Failures
Into Depersonalized
Feedback And
Create An
Environment Where
Total Failure Is
Nearly Impossible

11. 2.) Leverage
Dr. Seuss

12. Platforms
• Tools And Environments That
Let You Build Off The Work
Of Great Thinkers
• Creative Problem Solving Is
More Valuable Than
Computational Skill
• Helps You Master Basics
Faster Than Learning The
Basics From Scratch
• You Can Gain More Leverage
From A Successful Platform

13. Waves
Like A Surfer Waiting For The Right Wave, You
Must Place Yourself At The Right Place
At The Right Time.
Ripple Effect Of Opportunity + Preparation
Seek Out Opportunity-Do Not Wait For It
Constructive Interference-Use An External
Factor To Leverage Yourself To A Better
Position

14. “You’re Better Off Being a Fast Follower
Than An Originator”-Steve Blank

15. Superconnectors
Make Mass
Connections
It Is Not About
What You
Know, It Is
About Who
You Know
Find People
That Know
People, So
Then You Can
Know People
Make The
Connections
Meaningful
Fast Forward
The Problem
Of Organically
Meeting
People

16. 3.) Soar

17. Momentum
Keep A Sense Of
Forward
Motion/Progress-
No Mater How
Small
Build Up Potential
Energy And Then
Unexpected
Opportunities Can Be
Amplified
Momentum
And Future
Success
Are Highly
Correlated
Momentum
Isn’t Just A
Powerful
Ingredient To
Success, It Is
A Powerful
Predictor Of
Success

18. Simplicity
Sometimes Bigger Is Not
Better
To Soar We Need To
Simplify
Disruptive Innovation-The
Introduction Of A Lower
Cost Product Steals
Market Share From
Existing Player-Key
Ingredient Is Simplification

19. 10X Thinking
The Art Of The Extremely Big Swing
-Shoot For The Stars
Think BIG
Think Radically Different
10X Goals Force You To Come Up With
Smartcuts
Create Your Own Metaphorical Wave And Then
Catch It-As Red Bull Did With The Supersonic
Free-Fall From The Edge Of Space
Have A Goal That Will Serve To Organize And
Measure The Best Of Your Energies And Skills

20. SMARTCUTS!!
An Easier Way To Get
Ahead In Life