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The document discusses various strategies for achieving success in a non-traditional or "smart" way. These include hacking the ladder by approaching problems laterally, training with masters to learn from those who came before, and using rapid feedback to push yourself forward from failures. Other strategies are finding existing platforms to build upon, catching emerging trends to ride waves of success, superconnecting through generous networking, breaking challenges into smaller tasks to build momentum, focusing through simplicity, and having a noble large-scale vision through 10X thinking. The overall message is that non-traditional routes that incorporate these smartcut strategies may be faster to success than traditional approaches.
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- 2. The hard way, the cheap way or the smart way? 1. Hacking the ladder 2. Training with masters 3. Rapid feedback 4. Platforms 5. Catching waves 6. Superconnecting 7. Momentum 8. Simplicity 9. 10X thinking
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- 4. “Bigger or Better illustrates and interesting fact: people are generally willing to take a chance on something if it only feels like a small stretch.” “the key to the bored Mormon students’ success was not just their rapid cycle time. It was the direction they traded: sideways
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