Same. This has been my favorite SUS video, from all series actually. It's novel (and important). Not a repeat of the same information you hear everywhere else.
04:39 "sleep is the ultimate nootropic" 08:11 "drink an uncomfortable amount of water" 08:47 "exercise" 19:08 Robert Kegan;s theory of adult development 31:42 "move from playing finite games to playing infinite"
He nailed it. Sleep and eat well and everything else will fall in place. Fail to do those things and you will be fighting a battle that you cannot win.
this is the best startup advice ever. he is telling you exactly what it takes abs be ready to win in the startup world. super super agree with you and you are saying exactly what I'm experiencing and improving daily
Daniel, thank you for the valuable session. When I started to hear you, I just thought that it would be clichè. But turned out that what you shared was really of great help.
This is an amazing talk. Especially loved the idea of "Finite and Infinite Games" - just ordered the book by that title to dive deeper into the concept.
Feels like Daniel is too mature for his age (in relative to when I was younger :)). It was good to know about various stages of maturity in leaders and when they are ready to lead a startup!
very nice and informative talk, mhh, i used to drink about 3.5L of water a day or way more, until i've been told that drinking too(oooooo) much water is bad for the kidney.
My aha moment in leadership was when I truly understood that leadership is about improving the lives of your team / people around you. It's not about you, it's about them and you're responsible to do what's best for them.
1. Switch to 3rd party camera mode to play the right chess moves even when things are though 2. Play Infinite games, there is an abundance of resources and opportunities, and you just need to be able to see them on a long run prospect
The guy's name who wrote "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" is pronounced like so: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mih%C3%A1ly_Cs%C3%ADkszentmih%C3%A1lyi.ogg#file
There is something important Daniel was supposed to say, but the guy in the audience says it first and the audio never reaches the video. What is that thing?
I consider myself at Stage 5 .After building a performing team and helping them access flow state , a new Executive comes in with Stage 2 and wants to make new process change "SHAABOOM":. Curious to learn where it takes us. as I consider It , as all part of the Game . Instead of using the word "HARD" I prefer using word "PRACTICE", just because the mind always associated "pain" with "hard" leading to "drain" of energy . Where as when we associate Practice , mind tends to bring in energy for another try .(refer - The Legend of Bagger Vance - Caddy Scene) . Stage developments help books ( Meditations Markus Arelius , Reflections Journal , Mix and Match Oriental and Western Philosophical Books. ) - Hope it helps !
"nobody wants to work for a tired idiot" XD it made me wake up listening this video (as that tired idiot i was listening and falling asleep, and that was the moment of truth, when those words of wisdom went outta the mouth of the speaker)
So wait, what happens if I have to squeeze some additional hours to make my Startup work? I mean, working at it part-time when you reach your house at 8:30 - 9 PM. Or having to work on Sundays because you don't have any other time slot available... I do devote time to make exercise, but sleeping seems to be a problem (although I do tend to fall asleep late at night)... Anyone has any ideas?
@@mackenzieal Gotcha. As I'm writing this, I'm making an agenda that puts health first. I'll get at least 6 hours of sleep every day. I'm eager on getting out of my job, and my current plan is going to make a goal-based agenda that tackles productivity above all. Honestly, I don't think it's going to work, but it's a start
the question that I have is what you actually should be doing on your weekend? When I have 60-80 hours workweek with my startup I wakeup on saturday morning and realise I'm along, everybody amongst my friends left because I didn't respond to them and didn't plan for any activities. So the question what do I do on my wekend really? )
This talk really vibes with how I think but I'm definitely less sure now that any of those are prerequisite to be a great founder. Especially the athletic lifestyles parts: exercise, nutrition, etc. It was funny listening to a diet of one of the "smartest people on Earth" namely Terrence Tao. The dude eats bread and jelly for lunch or something hah
With respect to you health, fasting helps you not need to sleep as much, red lights are awesome, you don't need that much water according to Dr. Berg and you should probably avoid caffeine for the most part. I use a lot of other nootropics and peptides and find them very helpful.
Self transforming definitely relates to my personality. but it seems like most people can’t grasp the concept of being able to hold multiple ideas which may be in conflict with each other and consideration of the effects of each approach and interaction with other decisions(matrix).
The problem is that Daniel only speaks ideas found in self help books. Most of these tips and recommendations are themselves not wrong, but useless in their applications to reality. You can't just be more understanding of other people, see yourself in a third person etc even if you try really hard, it is rather personality traits that rarely change throughout a normal persons life. People who enjoy these kinds of hollow recommendations, will actively try to implement the recommendation and as a result perceive they are progressing, when in reality nothing has really changed and in 3 months they stop caring. The intention and scope of the talk is good, just the advice Daniel might have been helpful for him, given his background and traits, however, it is rather useless for the general public due to lack of general applicability.
@@EvaGreenFanPennyDreadful I am not attempting to educate an audience, merely a critique on how context specific his advice, making it lack general applicability. Perhaps you should address the actual critique if there is any hole in it?
@@alexnaoumidis1323 I would argue there is a big difference between actual growth and development and perceived development. The problem with overly context specific advice, is that it generally lacks general applicability. People who watch this video and are not in the exact context + genetics as Daniels, should most likely avoid a lot of the advice in this video as it for them would be the wrong advice, even if it would bring perceived development. Some points such as the argument about sleep and relaxation are not context specific and good points, rest is not. I am not sure how criticizing the lack of nuance and general applicability in his advice is related to my mindset? Please address the content of my critique rather than attacking me personally because I criticized a video you happen to like.
Sleep is important, totally agree with Daniel. However, if you're sleeping for 8-9 hours as a startup founder, you're in the wrong type of field. Studies have shown we only really need 6.5 hours of sleep to be healthy, and 30-45mins of exercise.
What studies would that be ? I ask because I'm at present reading "Why We Sleep" - by some accounts the best book on sleep, and the advice there is to get 8 hours a day.
This is the single greatest talk I’ve ever listened to.
Great talk. I love that frame of assuming your competitors are already practicing all the best habits you wish you had.
Agree, and the mindset of 1st person v 3rd person
Each series of YC's SUS, I've found one lecture particularly valuable. This time it's this one. (Previous ones were Alan Kay's and Peter Thiel's)
Same. This has been my favorite SUS video, from all series actually. It's novel (and important). Not a repeat of the same information you hear everywhere else.
“The riskier path is the right one” usually. Love this 💯
YC lectures are so sharp and articulate - incredible job
04:39 "sleep is the ultimate nootropic"
08:11 "drink an uncomfortable amount of water"
08:47 "exercise"
19:08 Robert Kegan;s theory of adult development
31:42 "move from playing finite games to playing infinite"
He nailed it. Sleep and eat well and everything else will fall in place. Fail to do those things and you will be fighting a battle that you cannot win.
Daniel Gross is awesome as per always... love his blog and everything he does. Thank you!!!
Who knew Rick Astley was so Wise? 11/10 would watch again
this is the best startup advice ever. he is telling you exactly what it takes abs be ready to win in the startup world.
super super agree with you and you are saying exactly what I'm experiencing and improving daily
Thank you Daniel, this was very insightful and nice to watch
Daniel, thank you for the valuable session. When I started to hear you, I just thought that it would be clichè. But turned out that what you shared was really of great help.
This is by far the BEST talk for a startup founders or wanna be entrepreneurs like myself ... no surprise that it comes from a YC person
Thanks for the great reference to Robert Kagen’s books
Beautiful, well thought out talk, really awesome.
Best talk yet
Thank you for sharing this talk. It is extremely helpful for me
This is an amazing talk. Especially loved the idea of "Finite and Infinite Games" - just ordered the book by that title to dive deeper into the concept.
Good book recs and sounds like he read Cal Newport's last book, too!
I like the idea of Flow, time passing by without knowing how much time passed.
Best lecture so far
This is really excellent
This is very inspiring!
really sharp and to the point very savy advice for success as a founder entreprenor - Txs Dan
👍
This was fantastic
So much value. Thank You.
Life doesn’t have to suck! Great line.
Great talk! Thanks, Daniel!
Very helpful. Thank you.
Thanks again for sharing!
At first i thought i just got Rick Rolled, but there is some pretty decent content here.
Thanks Daniel. That was awesome!
Feels like Daniel is too mature for his age (in relative to when I was younger :)). It was good to know about various stages of maturity in leaders and when they are ready to lead a startup!
Very good talk! Relevant advice.
amazing talk
This is such good advice. I wish I had watched this earlier.
Great talk. A lot of wisdom there!
Work in flow and keep you team members work in flow.
Really good.
Standout talk. Excellent framing. Thank you!
For some reason, I felt that this was about to be highly underrated. I was right !!
Please keep always uploading slides
The talk is great especially the mind set at different stages 1 to 5.
seemed quite stroky but alright
very nice and informative talk, mhh, i used to drink about 3.5L of water a day or way more, until i've been told that drinking too(oooooo) much water is bad for the kidney.
My aha moment in leadership was when I truly understood that leadership is about improving the lives of your team / people around you. It's not about you, it's about them and you're responsible to do what's best for them.
💼Great Information for life and leadership.
1. Switch to 3rd party camera mode to play the right chess moves even when things are though
2. Play Infinite games, there is an abundance of resources and opportunities, and you just need to be able to see them on a long run prospect
cool dude, really enjoyed it
Very helpfull
Naval Ravikant is awesome.
Sprinting (physical activity) is underrated
The guy's name who wrote "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" is pronounced like so: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mih%C3%A1ly_Cs%C3%ADkszentmih%C3%A1lyi.ogg#file
Keep good relationships!!!
What was the hack with water that someone in the audience shouted out at 8:28?
I couldn't hear anyone say anything. I assumed someone in the audience held up a large water bottle :)
Eat ice don’t drink water. It concentrates the h20 and keeps you hydrated longer
anyone? I have the same doubt
@@matthewdesanctis4451 chewing ice is bad for your teeth
There is something important Daniel was supposed to say, but the guy in the audience says it first and the audio never reaches the video. What is that thing?
I consider myself at Stage 5 .After building a performing team and helping them access flow state , a new Executive comes in with Stage 2 and wants to make new process change "SHAABOOM":. Curious to learn where it takes us. as I consider It , as all part of the Game . Instead of using the word "HARD" I prefer using word "PRACTICE", just because the mind always associated "pain" with "hard" leading to "drain" of energy . Where as when we associate Practice , mind tends to bring in energy for another try .(refer - The Legend of Bagger Vance - Caddy Scene) . Stage developments help books ( Meditations Markus Arelius , Reflections Journal , Mix and Match Oriental and Western Philosophical Books. ) - Hope it helps !
powerful metaphor at at 24:35: "this person can kind of run any idea that comes to them in vm"
"nobody wants to work for a tired idiot" XD it made me wake up listening this video (as that tired idiot i was listening and falling asleep, and that was the moment of truth, when those words of wisdom went outta the mouth of the speaker)
So what was the book? didn't find any books related to Kegan's theory of adult development
Agreed. Anybody know the book?
In Over Our Heads
Great alk, Smart kid
So wait, what happens if I have to squeeze some additional hours to make my Startup work? I mean, working at it part-time when you reach your house at 8:30 - 9 PM. Or having to work on Sundays because you don't have any other time slot available...
I do devote time to make exercise, but sleeping seems to be a problem (although I do tend to fall asleep late at night)... Anyone has any ideas?
If you have to drop something. Choose what matters. That's your heatlh, not the startup.
@@mackenzieal Gotcha. Have you had to make the same trade-off? At least in that 8pm to 9pm range I get to go to the gym.
@@javiasilis I've made the mistake of treating my business life as a sprint rather than a marathon. It's never been worth it.
@@mackenzieal Gotcha. As I'm writing this, I'm making an agenda that puts health first. I'll get at least 6 hours of sleep every day.
I'm eager on getting out of my job, and my current plan is going to make a goal-based agenda that tackles productivity above all. Honestly, I don't think it's going to work, but it's a start
this is fucking gold.
the question that I have is what you actually should be doing on your weekend? When I have 60-80 hours workweek with my startup I wakeup on saturday morning and realise I'm along, everybody amongst my friends left because I didn't respond to them and didn't plan for any activities. So the question what do I do on my wekend really? )
This talk really vibes with how I think but I'm definitely less sure now that any of those are prerequisite to be a great founder. Especially the athletic lifestyles parts: exercise, nutrition, etc.
It was funny listening to a diet of one of the "smartest people on Earth" namely Terrence Tao. The dude eats bread and jelly for lunch or something hah
With respect to you health, fasting helps you not need to sleep as much, red lights are awesome, you don't need that much water according to Dr. Berg and you should probably avoid caffeine for the most part. I use a lot of other nootropics and peptides and find them very helpful.
Really good. Skyler Gigabytes was here .:. :: :.-
#Impressions
Ver-ree sensible fella. (I wonder if this is the Daniel Gross who writes for Slate and maybe The New Yorker sometimes?)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gross_(software_entrepreneur)#Cue
Self transforming definitely relates to my personality.
but it seems like most people can’t grasp the concept of being able to hold multiple ideas which may be in conflict with each other and consideration of the effects of each approach and interaction with other decisions(matrix).
iam so stuck in the stage 2 imperial mind, i have to step up lol.
btw. stage 2 vs stage 3 is basically trump supporters vs sjws.
bro you missed your bottom button
Turn from "first person shooter" to "third person shooter". From "I am angry" to "I am feeling angry". Nice
I like the presentation - it matches to lots of my personal experience. However, one thing that I don't like is "...,boy"
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23:03 -- Stage 4, this profile could generalize very well for an autistic brain. Which also is a group that has a very high representation in tech.
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Step 5: Oprah
My ancestor, my grandfather, did have an alarm clock.
OMG my competition is smarter than me :)
99% obvious things
Is this the origin of the NPC meme?
The problem is that Daniel only speaks ideas found in self help books. Most of these tips and recommendations are themselves not wrong, but useless in their applications to reality. You can't just be more understanding of other people, see yourself in a third person etc even if you try really hard, it is rather personality traits that rarely change throughout a normal persons life. People who enjoy these kinds of hollow recommendations, will actively try to implement the recommendation and as a result perceive they are progressing, when in reality nothing has really changed and in 3 months they stop caring. The intention and scope of the talk is good, just the advice Daniel might have been helpful for him, given his background and traits, however, it is rather useless for the general public due to lack of general applicability.
Your fixed mindset is the reason why you're not changing and won't be successful in applying these techniques.
Well I'd rather learn from Daniel Gross than you Robert lmao
@@EvaGreenFanPennyDreadful I am not attempting to educate an audience, merely a critique on how context specific his advice, making it lack general applicability. Perhaps you should address the actual critique if there is any hole in it?
@@alexnaoumidis1323 I would argue there is a big difference between actual growth and development and perceived development. The problem with overly context specific advice, is that it generally lacks general applicability. People who watch this video and are not in the exact context + genetics as Daniels, should most likely avoid a lot of the advice in this video as it for them would be the wrong advice, even if it would bring perceived development. Some points such as the argument about sleep and relaxation are not context specific and good points, rest is not. I am not sure how criticizing the lack of nuance and general applicability in his advice is related to my mindset? Please address the content of my critique rather than attacking me personally because I criticized a video you happen to like.
@@MrBamboowarrior keep tipping your fedora, my man
Well our ancestors did have an alarm clock. It was the roar of the lion coming to eat you.
this is pretty cringe hahahah. eat healthy and sleep guys!!!!!!!!
True, but u would be surprised at how shitty these people live. Look at bill gates in the beginning
Sleep is important, totally agree with Daniel. However, if you're sleeping for 8-9 hours as a startup founder, you're in the wrong type of field. Studies have shown we only really need 6.5 hours of sleep to be healthy, and 30-45mins of exercise.
What studies would that be ? I ask because I'm at present reading "Why We Sleep" - by some accounts the best book on sleep, and the advice there is to get 8 hours a day.