Be Too Busy to “Do Coffee”

You should be too busy to “do coffee”, while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.

• Be too busy to “do coffee” while keeping an uncluttered calendar 0:00

• People will meet with you when you have proof of work 2:00

• Networking is overrated even early in your career 2:09

[iVuDang]

I like this point also:
- When you are meeting people and hoping to get that lucky break, you are relying on type 1 luck which is blind luck, and type 2 luck which is hustle luck. What you’re not getting is the type 3 and type 4 luck, which are tee better kinds, where you spend time developing a reputation, working on something, developing a unique point a view, and being able to spot opportunities others can’t. A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to do great things in this world. If you want to be able to do great things, whether you’re a musician or an entrepreneur, you need free time and you need a free mind.

[iVuDang]

My key takeaways:
- It is whatever the highest impact that needs to be done at that time, and what I'm feeling most inspired of at that time.
- Constantly, ruthlessly decline meetings. You have to ruthlessly cut meetings out of your life.
- If someone wants to do a meeting, see if you can do a phone call instead.
- if they can do it with a phone call, see if they can do it with an email instead.
- Therefore, one has to be ruthless about dodging meetings. If you must do meetings,
- keep them short, keep them actionable, keep them small.
- Any meeting with eight people and sitting in a conference table, nothing is getting done in that meeting. You're literally just dying one hour at a time.
- I don't do non-transactional meetings. I don't do meetings without a strict agenda. I don't do meetings unless we absolutely have to.
- When you are asking for a meeting, you have to be super actionable about it.
- When you have something important or something valuable. You will be super actionable with your time.
- Product progress is the resume for the entrepreneur. It’s the unshakeable, unfakeable resume. You have to have proof of work.

[jojowastaken]

Thinking of the 2 stages as exploring and exploiting is very smart, i think. I would like to hear more about it

[josel-bouchard]

Naval you are a genius and your wisdom is like a gold mine but open to everyone! :)

[joshualong]

"A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to do great things" is definitely one of the most valuable counter culture insights I have found.

Richard Koch (80/20 guy) has been preaching this for decades and I obviously benefit from having both of you to learn from.

[MrBrille]

I went to the library yesterday. First person asks me to have lunch. No. Second person asks to have coffee. No. Third person ask to play ping pong in a break. Yes, I love pingpong. Great game with high intensity. Fourth person asks to do something in the evening. No. Instead I watched Naval on the Joe Rogan podcast. Couldn't have invested my time in a better way.

[ContractorNesamani]

Well said. Good things n creativity comes from the free mind👍

[michaelgreen]

It depends on the industry you are in!

[niteshdewan]

Hey Naval, You said to do great things you have to make free time and free mind, Many people can make free time but how about free mind?

[smithshah]

This notes should be in academic curriculum

[BrentNally]

My favorite super power is saying no! Call me SuperNoman.

[TheBlackClockOfTime]

Sooo, take a lot of meetings in order to build a network so that you don't have to take meetings. Got it :D

[killerinstinct]

I see where he’s coming from but personally I disagree. I had people take the time out for me when I was starting and it helped me out a lot. I return the favor for people that are vouched for when I can.

[JackyTMusic]

I dig Naval but hes literally quoting Tim Ferris here..
Maybe Tim borrowed it too.. but come on genius billionaires, give credit n reference to creative pieces of rhetoric.

[scimitar]

Naval is just an egomaniac who thinks he is a philosopher, Just because he rode the tech boom doesn't mean he is a super intelligent guy. I think he is more like a talker who convinces other people to do work for him and take credit.