Vlad Loktev: belief

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…So what I'm hearing there is potentially if you're just hitting it at your job or you think it's just not going anywhere, it might be that you don't actually care that much about what the company's trying to do in the mission, and maybe there's not a lot that can change for you to actually be happy there because you don't actually care. Fascinating. Something that I wanted to come back to real quick, a lot of your advice comes back to impact, impact above all else, drive impact, focus comes back to what is the most important thing to do. Something that I think about a lot is how do you be successful within a company, and one of the levers is go to a place and a team that is driving impact. Do you have any advice there around just where you're best suited to be successful within an org, coming at it from or impact is most happening? I mean, I always thought about it as the combination or almost like this Venn diagram of there's one circle, which is all the different priorities that are important. Then the other circle are your strengths and where you spike, and the intersection of the two is the place where you should be and sometimes you're not quite there at the intersection and you're kind of gravitating towards that intersection. You're building a specific skill that you're already naturally pretty decent at, but you definitely want to double down on it as you're learning more about the priorities and there's a match there. The worst thing I think you can do is just sit in a job where you're not being impactful, you're not working on the top priority and you're just wasting your life. Our time is short on earth. You might as well wake up every day and work in the hardest thing you can, where you can truly based on who you are and the spikes you have, make a dent and whatever is going to happen. And I also have the serenity prayer ready to go when things get really hard. So, what I want to do right now is summarize many of the things that you've shared before we get to talking about Airbnb today and Brian Chesky's approach to product. I guess before I try to summarize stuff, is there anything else you think is important or behavior-wise that we haven't touched?…

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