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The rule of 20 was you talk to 20 people that don’t really know you, but they’re in your target market segment but they’re not talking to you just because they’re your buddies. The first five discussions you have, you just sit there and you just ask them about how they do their job and you say nothing about what you do, nothing at all.
[The Knowledge Project Ep. #77] Mike Maples: Living in the Future - Farnam Street
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Prompts to Elicit Stories (Most Interviewers Are Weak at This) “Tell me about a time when . . .” “Tell me about the day [or moment or time] when . . .” “Tell me the story of . . . [how you came to major in X, how you met so-and-so, etc.]” “Tell me about the day you realized ___ . . . ” “What were the steps that got you to ___ ?” “Describe the conversation when . . .”
Tools of Titans
Timothy Ferriss
I ask him why he didn’t explicitly mention Girard in his popular business book Zero to One, even though it was packed with insights from his mentor.1 “There’s something dangerous about Girard’s ideas,” Thiel says. “I think people have self-defense mechanisms against some of this stuff.” He wanted people to see that Girard’s insights contain important truths and that they explain what is going on in the world around them, but he didn’t want to take his readers all the way through the looking-glass.
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