Dear son, Working out will make you feel weak while you're getting stronger. Learning new things will make you feel dumb while you're getting smarter. Investing will make you feel broke while you're getting richer. Normalize doing hard things. Every. Single. Day.

A few years into trying to land acting jobs, in 1988, Matt Damon auditioned for Dead Poets Society. Again, he didn’t get it. Soon after, he got a summer job at The Janus, a single-screen movie theater in his hometown. “It played 1 fucking movie the entire summer,” Damon said: “Dead Poets Society.” “So, you go from the possibility of being in the movie to the guy wearing a maroon vest and black bow tie, tearing the ticket, and watching people come out crying because they're so moved by the movie.” “It was like getting kicked in the teeth three times a day, every day.” Damon persisted on the auditioning circuit, and over the next few years, he landed a few small, uncredited, and non-speaking roles. Then in 1995, he auditioned for the part of Aaron Stampler in Primal Fear. From years of reading scipts, auditioning, getting rejected, and watching other's careers take off—Damon developed an instinct for recognizing when something had potential to be a break-out role. After reading the Primal Fear script, Damon said, “I spent money I didn’t have on a dialect coach because it was clear that whoever got that role was going to blow up.” Edward Norton got the role. Selected over 2,000 other prospects, Norton made his acting debut, a break-out performance for which he won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination in the same category. After watching Norton’s rise, Damon decided to change his approach to trying to break into Hollywood. “I knew there wasn’t going to be many more of those roles to come around,” he said. “It was like, ‘What are the odds that a movie with that good a role is going to make it all the way through the ranks of known actors, and then get thrown to the wolves, and then after all of us fight for that scrap, one of us gets it? This ain’t gonna work. I got to do my own thing.’” “That was really the impetus behind Ben [Affleck] and I writing Good Will Hunting...We wrote that movie specifically because we wanted the parts as actors.” Takeaway 1: Do Not Fight The Last War In The 33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene uses the phrase “fighting the last war” to describe the tendency to get stuck repeating the same tactics, strategies, ways of thinking, and so on. In warfare, a general who carries the tactics from a previous battle into the next is said to be fighting the last war, a critique of their failure to adapt to present realities and circumstances. In civilian life, Greene writes, “what most often weighs you down and brings you misery is...your tendency to fight the last war...You must force yourself to strike out in new directions. Attack problems from new angles,” Repeatedly trying and failing to be selected for roles—Damon was fighting the last war. Finally, he struck out in a new direction and attacked the problem from a new angle. Takeaway 2: Make Your Own Turn Like Damon, Greta Gerwig spent many years not doing what she wanted to do. Since she was a kid, Gerwig wanted to be a director. At one point, she met with executives at Sony Pictures to try to persuade the studio to let her direct an adaptation of Little Women. “Who are you?” one exec said. “I don’t know who you are.” Accepting that to get what she wanted, she’d have to “will it into existence,” Gerwig wrote an original screenplay, Lady Bird, with which she made her directorial debut and earned 3 Oscar nominations, including Best Director. After Lady Bird’s success, she said, Sony “came back around and said, ‘do you want to direct Little Woman?’” Reflecting on her path, Gerwig said, “When you’re coming up, you kind of have this sense that somebody at some point will be like, ‘Now it’s your turn. And it doesn’t ever happen like that...There’s no man behind the curtain who goes, ‘ok, your turn now.’ You have to make your own turn. You have to will it into existence.” - - - “The system is not built for you to succeed. You have to break through it.” — Matt Damon

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Peter Thiel on the difference between the best founders and “professional CEOs” In his book Zero To One, which is approaching its 10-year anniversary, Thiel wrote: “We need founders. If anything, we should be more tolerant of founders who seem strange or extreme. We need unusual individuals to lead companies beyond mere incrementalism.” And while he doesn’t believe there’s a simple magic formula for what a founder looks like, Thiel observes: “A lot of the great companies that have been built over the last two decades were founded by people where it was somehow deeply connected to their identity - their life’s project.” He contrasts this to Silicon Valley in the 1990s when lots of founders were replaced with professional CEOs. Thiel believes it made a big difference when it became more common for founders run the companies. He gives the example of a 22 year old Mark Zuckerberg turning down a billion dollar acquisition from Yahoo: “If you had a professional CEO, it would have just been: ‘I can’t believe they’re offering us a billion dollars. I’m going to try not to be too eager. We better take the money and run.’” Video Source: @AspenInstitute

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