David Senra: belief

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…It's so funny because what he also did right there is for every college finance sophomore that's having to go through a class to do DCFs, and they're like, I don't understand this, this is complicated, he just explained, conceptually, a discounted cash flow model there in a way that was unbelievably digestible. He's so good at that. The clarity of thought. Also, he just educated you in a way that makes more sense, is interesting, and you're entertained by. You might build a business off that, and then you might want to sell one day or whatever the case is. I'm spending a lot more time really trying to work on storytelling ability and concision. The value is in the compression and the distillation. You could listen to an audio book for 25 hours. But if I can give you the best idea or one idea that changed your life, and I could do it every week or whatever, in a couple of minutes, some of that value is going to be brought back to me. What I realized is all my heroes, what they have in common is the unbelievable clarity of thought like Steve Jobs, Charlie Munger. You're not going to be like, oh, what does that mean? They take unbelievably complex things like you're not advertising to a standing army, you're advertising to a moving parade, make it in a memorable way, and then you carry that maxim with you forever. How do you get better at that? You said you're working on it.…

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