How to Think Bigger (feat. The Problems and Opportunities Method)
Dec 20, 2023•23 min•Season 5Ep. 125
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Episode description
Today, we’ll teach you how to avoid sabotaging your startup. Most founders think the best way to build a startup is to mitigate risks - to optimize for worst case scenarios. But the actual way to build a successful startup is to optimize for tasks with the highest ceiling - to do the things that might give you asymmetric gains, if they work. This is unnatural and hard - the Problems and Opportunities Method, the second in our Method series, will help.
- Tacklebox
- Idea to Startup Newsletter
- Day One App
- The Hail Mary Pass that Saved Hinge
- Loss Aversion is Paralyzing Your Startup
- Feast of the Seven Fishes
00:22 Problems and Opportunities
02:26 Find Your Lobster Story
08:10 Asymmetric Progress
10:00 Smooth Jazz
10:45 The To Do List Monster
14:20 The Obstacle is the Way
15:12 Ambiguity Aversion, Loss Aversion, and Magicians
15:55 Helping Parents Plan Dates
18:22 Scheduling and the Actual Downside
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