Christine Armstrong

It’s nearly useless to take advice from billionaires, both literal and figurative. Even if the advice is interesting. The problems, challenges & pitfalls that threaten someone in the top 0.001% of their field (business, athletics, acting, storytelling, etc) are so utterly exotic and irrelevant that you might as well be asking King Charles for advice on how to renovate a bathroom on a budget. Instead, find people who’ve accomplished what you aspire to achieve - starting from the same place you are currently - in the next two years, five years or maybe ten years (at the most) 2-5 years is the best range IMO. Listen to people who’ve actually had your problems, and how they overcame them. Don’t just follow the advice verbatim - it has to be adapted to your natural tendencies and situational reality - but at least it will be relevant and actionable. It doesn’t matter what Elon Musk thinks about entrepreneurship, or what Tom Cruise thinks about filmmaking, or what Khabib thinks about MMA, or what Joe Rogan thinks about podcasts… They’re each coming from a completely different set of realities than what you face, today. And if you try to solve $100K level problems with $100M level solutions, so to speak, it’s easy to get way over your skis in complexity & bloat - and failure is practically assured. Maybe a better analogy is if you’re 300 lbs and trying to get in shape, trying to go through a Navy SEAL bootcamp is likely going to end in cardiac arrest. Find a mountain you can actually climb.