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.

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)

“The riskier path is the right one” usually. Love this 💯

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"

YC lectures are so sharp and articulate - incredible job

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

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 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

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

Thank you Daniel, this was very insightful and nice to watch

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.

Thanks for the great reference to Robert Kagen’s books

Good book recs and sounds like he read Cal Newport's last book, too!

At first i thought i just got Rick Rolled, but there is some pretty decent content here.

Beautiful, well thought out talk, really awesome.

Best talk yet

This was fantastic

This is very inspiring!

This is really excellent

really sharp and to the point very savy advice for success as a founder entreprenor - Txs Dan 👍

Great talk! Thanks, Daniel!

Thank you for sharing this talk. It is extremely helpful for me

I like the idea of Flow, time passing by without knowing how much time passed.

Best lecture so far

Very helpful. Thank you.

Thanks again for sharing!

Life doesn’t have to suck! Great line.

amazing talk

Thanks Daniel. That was awesome!

This is such good advice. I wish I had watched this earlier.

Great talk. A lot of wisdom there!

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!

So much value. Thank You.

Very good talk! Relevant advice.

Really good.

Please keep always uploading slides

Work in flow and keep you team members work in flow.

cool dude, really enjoyed it

For some reason, I felt that this was about to be highly underrated. I was right !!

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.

💼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

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

What was the hack with water that someone in the audience shouted out at 8:28?

Very helpfull

Naval Ravikant is awesome.

"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)

The talk is great especially the mind set at different stages 1 to 5.

So what was the book? didn't find any books related to Kegan's theory of adult development

Standout talk. Excellent framing. Thank you!

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?

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?

Sprinting (physical activity) is underrated

Great alk, Smart kid

powerful metaphor at at 24:35: "this person can kind of run any idea that comes to them in vm"

Keep good relationships!!!

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? )

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 !

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.

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?)

Turn from "first person shooter" to "third person shooter". From "I am angry" to "I am feeling angry". Nice

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.

iam so stuck in the stage 2 imperial mind, i have to step up lol.

bro you missed your bottom button

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.

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).

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I like the presentation - it matches to lots of my personal experience. However, one thing that I don't like is "...,boy"

OMG my competition is smarter than me :)

99% obvious things

My ancestor, my grandfather, did have an alarm clock.

Step 5: Oprah

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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.

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!!!!!!!!

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.