The secret of great work
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To do your greatest work, you must be unselfish but first you need to build a strong work ethic. This involves having a burning desire to succeed through hard work and taking responsibility. You should want to improve your standard of living through making money by solving customers' problems with technology. With dedication to constantly learning and a willingness to struggle through failures, you can gain the skills and experience to build successful startups and ultimately do your greatest work.
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The secret of great work
- 2. The Secret of Great Work Sanjay Vijayakumar
- 3. Principle: To do your greatest work, you have to be unselfish.
- 4. But to get there…
- 5. You have to build the hunger to succeed.
- 6. You have to be the hardest working employee in the team
- 7. You have to take responsibility for your own decisions and be ready to face the consequences of your decisions.
- 8. You have to have a desire to make money.
- 9. You have to have a burning desire to improve your standard of living.
- 10. My mom was a clerk and made 4000 Rs per month. That was not enough for anything. I wanted to make money.
- 11. I wanted to win in life. I had a burning desire to win.
- 12. With that desire, i learned how to build a startup and then transform it into a company. This is the 10th year of MobME> Paid 25 crores in taxes and employees 150 people.
- 13. Get your mind into the Startup Zone. Imagine your own house and car and freedom to do anything that you want.
- 14. Everyone who reached that Zone has struggled to get there. Decide to struggle now or later in life.
- 15. Struggle now and learn how money is made, how companies are build.
- 16. Use the knowledge to build for yourself or trade your knowledge and skills to work for others. Both are OK as long as you enjoy it.
- 17. Realise that you are not an expert! Even Experts fail 90% of time when they build a startup.
- 18. Yet, at such high failure rate, new people start the adventure journey to build a business, because they have a desire to win.
- 19. If you want to make wealth, focus on learning about the problem deeply.
- 20. Learn every angle about the problem.
- 21. Learn everything you can about the customer.
- 22. Fix the customers problem using technology. If you write code and it doesn't solve a problem, the code doesn't become alive. Aim to give life to your code!
- 23. Tweak the code till you get it right so that it solves a problem for the customer. (also called problem-solution fit)
- 24. and then the customer will pay because you are solving his problem.
- 25. When your income> expense, you will have a successful business.
- 26. This is your time.
- 27. The internet has all the knowledge you need to learn.
- 28. Stop looking around you and start reading on the internet how young students like you are building companies.
- 29. Snapchat is going for 25B USD IPO (1,60,000Crores) in 5 years. Evan is 26 now, started his company at 21 years.
- 30. There is nothing in his brain that is not your brain. Its just that US has a different ecosystem where the mindset is there with young people to build large companies.
- 31. If you fail, SV.CO fails. We have no fear of failure.
- 32. We will find a way to teach anyone who is willing to work hard and learn the secret of how to work and how to make money by building a startup.
- 33. We have build a company at your age. We will teach you how to do it. You will build bigger companies that we build.
- 34. But first.you have to decide that you want to learn how to build a business and how to make money and how to become independent in life.
- 35. Light a fire in your belly. Focus on your goal to succeed. Imagine your own freedom to do what you want to do in life.
- 36. The fire of desire to succeed will burn the fear of failure. You will not even care about failures on the way as you know your ultimate goal.
- 37. Once you light the fire, then understand its your duty to do whatever it takes to become successful (without breaking the law ofcourse)
- 38. Once you understand that its your duty to work hard and become independent and be able to stand on your own feet..thats when real work starts.
- 39. As you evolve and mature further, you will realise that the greatest work is done when you are unselfish and money is not motivating you.
- 40. This evolution is phase 2 of your professional life. Thats when you will do your greatest work. But you first need confidence to stand on your own feet and that happens when you are financially independent.
- 41. The path to this 2nd stage understanding that the secret of work is joining the ends (goals) to the means (what you are doing on day to day)
- 42. Do not think of anything else when you are doing work. Devote your whole time to it. Dont let anything disturb your concentration.
- 43. Because you are focussing on building a good wireframe, that thought expands in your mind. Once it expands sufficiently, you can draw up a wireframe. The more wireframes you draw, better your skill and finally, good wireframes will lead to good end results.
- 44. Dont worry about the final results.
- 45. Unlike an exam, here you need to get a real customer for your product. This is also dependent on external factors like competition.
- 46. Your duty is to only work hard and hit your own full potential in life. Everything else will follow!
- 47. Summary: To do your greatest work, you have to be unselfish. To get there, you have to first become financially independent and be confident in your abilities. To become confident, you need real skills that are useful in real world. To get real skills, you need a burning desire to learn and understand that your duty is to become the hardest working employee in the team.