Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…I think you'll never know what you're capable of unless you try to do something that you're not sure you can do. I agree. I find setting more ambitious goals than you think you can immediately achieve actually really pushes you to achieve them. And the literature agrees. There's a lot of literature that shows ambitious goals are actually quite motivating unless you feel you're doomed, at which point then they're demotivating.…

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