Akira The Don, Naval Ravikant - Great Things In This World lyrics

We squander our time with the
Death of a thousand cuts
We squander our time with the
Death of a thousand cuts

A busy calendar and a busy
Mind will destroy your
Ability to do great things in this world
To do great things in this world
You need free time and a free mind
To do great things in this world
You need free time and a free mind
To do great things in this world

You should be too busy to do coffee
While still keeping an uncluttered calendar
People who know me know that I'm
Famous for simultaneously doing two things
One is having a very clean calendar
I have almost no meetings on it while at the
Same time I am busy all the time
I'm always doing something
And it's usually what we call "work-related"
It is whatever the highest impact thing
Is that needs to be done
At that time and that I'm
Most interested and inspired about
But the only way to do that is to constantly
Ruthlessly decline meetings
People what to do coffee
And build relationships
That's fine early in your career
When you're still exploring
But later in your career when
You're exploiting and there are
More things coming at you than
You have time for
You have to ruthlessly cut meetings
Out of your life
If someone wants to do a meeting
See if you can do it
With a phone call instead
If they wanna do a phone call
See if they can do it with an email instead
If they wanna do it in email
See if they can do a text message instead
If they're text messaging
You should probably be ignoring most text
Messages unless they're true emergencies
One has to be utterly
Ruthless about dodging meetings
When you do do meetings, do walking meetings
Do standing meetings keep them short
Keep them actionable and small
Any meeting with eight people in it
Sitting around a conference table
Nothing is getting done in that meeting
You're literally just dying one
Hour at a time
You're literally just dying one
Hour at a time

A busy calendar and a busy
Mind will destroy your
Ability to do great things in this world
To do great things in this world
You need free time and a free mind
To do great things in this world
You need free time and a free mind
To do great things in this world

When you have something important or
Something valuable, other busy
Interesting people will meet with you
Your calling card has to be, "Hey
Here's what I've done here's what I
Can show you and I'll
Be respectful of your time if
This is useful to you"
And I find that there are very busy
Important people who will take your meeting
But you have to come with
The proper calling card
All the people who tweet and who email
Famous or rich people saying, "Hey, if
I could just get one meeting with
You" and they're vague about it
They're not gonna get anywhere in life
You have to build up the credibility
You have to do the work
You have to have proof of work
If you have proof of work, and
You truly have something interesting
Then you shouldn't hesitate to put
It together and send it to somebody but even
Then, when you're asking for a meeting
You wanna be super actionable about it
Even if you yourself haven't made it yet
If you think you're gonna make
It by going out and networking and
Doing a whole bunch of meetings
You're probably incorrect
Yes, networking can be important
Early in your career, and yes you can get
Serendipitous with meetings
But the odds are pretty low
Just meeting people and hoping to
Get that lucky break, you're relying on
Type one luck, which is blind
Luck, and type two luck
Which is hustle luck
But what you're not getting is type three or
Type four luck which are the better kind
Where you spend time developing
A reputation working on
Something, developing a unique point of view
Being able to spot opportunities
That others can't

A busy calendar and a busy
Mind will destroy your
Ability to do great things in this world
To do great things in this world
You need free time and a free mind
To do great things in this world
You need free time and a free mind
To do great things in this world

A busy calendar and a busy
Mind will destroy your
Ability to do great things in this world
To do great things in this world
You need free time and a free mind
To do great things in this world
You need free time and a free mind
To do great things in this world

If you wanna be able to do great things
Whether you're a musician, entrepreneur, or
You're an investor
You need free time and you need a free mind
If you wanna be able to do great things
You need free time and you need a free mind