You Don’t Need Skills To Succeed

(At least not the way you think)

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Last week I watched out of curiosity a video/podcast episode from the series Deep Dives by the YouTuber Ali Abdaal.

He was interviewing someone I never heard of before: Daniel Priestley, a multi-business owner. Quite appealing to me since I aim to own multiple $M businesses in the next 11 years.

But I didn’t expect what happened: I had a realisation.

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Not a businessman

See, I’m an academic. The hardcore one, a Ph.D. in Physics, and 20 years of experience in public research.

I have never been employed by a business (except those few small jobs to make some money as a student, only a few days or weeks).

All my perspective on being successful has been built in this context where knowledge and skills are everything.