Drew
Houston, cofounder of Dropbox, MIT'06, was Phoebe's commencement
speaker. He said his cheat sheet for life would have 3 things on it, a
tennis ball, a circle, and the number 30,000.
The tennis ball
reminds him that you have to find that idea that you will run through
anything to capture, like a dog after a tennis ball. A problem that you
will work on solving because you have to, not for money, not because
someone tells you to, but because you have to for self satisfaction.
The circle is to remind himself that you are the average of the 5
people you spend the most time with. Choose people that inspire you to
achieve.
And 30,000, the
number of days, roughly, in a lifetime. Use your days like the limited
consumable resource they are. All of them.
He went on to say that the goal should be to make life interesting.
I would agree, the only thing we have to spend, that we can't get back,
is time. The only thing we can get for it is memories. Choose wisely.
Drew
Houston, cofounder of Dropbox, MIT'06, was Phoebe's commencement
speaker. He said his cheat sheet for life would have 3 things on it, a
tennis ball, a circle, and the number 30,000.
The tennis ball reminds him that you have to find that idea that you will run through anything to capture, like a dog after a tennis ball. A problem that you will work on solving because you have to, not for money, not because someone tells you to, but because you have to for self satisfaction.
The circle is to remind himself that you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. Choose people that inspire you to achieve.
And 30,000, the number of days, roughly, in a lifetime. Use your days like the limited consumable resource they are. All of them.
He went on to say that the goal should be to make life interesting.
I would agree, the only thing we have to spend, that we can't get back, is time. The only thing we can get for it is memories. Choose wisely.
The tennis ball reminds him that you have to find that idea that you will run through anything to capture, like a dog after a tennis ball. A problem that you will work on solving because you have to, not for money, not because someone tells you to, but because you have to for self satisfaction.
The circle is to remind himself that you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. Choose people that inspire you to achieve.
And 30,000, the number of days, roughly, in a lifetime. Use your days like the limited consumable resource they are. All of them.
He went on to say that the goal should be to make life interesting.
I would agree, the only thing we have to spend, that we can't get back, is time. The only thing we can get for it is memories. Choose wisely.
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