Shane Snow

Incremental progress, he says, depends on working harder. More resources, more effort. 10x progress is built on bravery and creativity instead. Working smarter.

You can make incremental progress by playing by the rules. To create breakthrough change, you have to break the rules. Let’s break some big ones together.

Hard work and luck are certainly ingredients of success, but they’re not the entire recipe.

Momentum isn’t just a powerful ingredient of success. It’s also a powerful predictor of success.

The Second City manages to accomplish three things to accelerate its performers’ growth: (1) it gives them rapid feedback; (2) it depersonalizes the feedback; and (3) it lowers the stakes and pressure, so students take risks that force them to improve.

By embracing all these tiny failures, there is no actual failure.

The thing about giant swings is they come with increased odds of failure. Babe Ruth swung big and smashed every home run record in baseball. He also held the record for strikeouts.

But those who hack world-class success tend to be the ones who can focus relentlessly on a tiny number of things. In other words, to soar, we need to simplify.