Sometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.

I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.

It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Sometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.