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Unreal what you can get out of ChatGPT with a single prompt in one attempt. Our new ad creative for the Action Digest:

What parts had promise? Carry them forward. What parts failed? Rework them. Stop writing first drafts. Start iterating. That’s the difference between winning and losing.

It's much faster to write a second draft than a first. Losers, meanwhile, "flail." They jump from one new idea to the next and keep starting over. They are always trying something brand new, abandoning any quality they previously acquired.

Why do winners accelerate? The answer is: because they are improving. When researchers compared the second-from-last attempt of winners to their first ever attempt, they found a huge increase in quality. Again, losers did not show the same improvement. Here's why...

Researchers studied thousands of high-stakes attempts at success: • 776,721 grant applications from scientists. • 58,111 startups trying to get acquired or IPO. • The attack histories of terrorist groups. Across all 3, they found one clear signal that separates the winners.

This study revealed what successful founders, scientists & terrorists, have in common. It’s not luck, raw talent, or just persistence. Winners and losers fail about the same number of times and their first attempts are equally bad. The secret is something else entirely ⬇️

Interesting to read that @scottbelsky challenges himself to notice what ISN'T being discussed at conferences Chimes with something @dharmesh said recently—that the opportunity in AI is whatever it CAN'T do today People who build the future don't just conjure it out of thin air, they find it by noticing the gaps in the present Source = Implications newsletter:

4 hours. That's how long it took J.K. Rowling to dream up Harry Potter on a broken down train. But the time between that day & publishing the first book? 7 years. As @scottbelsky once said, "It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen."

In 2010, Walter Isaacson gained access to Jony Ive’s top secret design studio at Apple. Once inside, Isaacson learned first hand about the creative rituals that Jony and Steve Jobs engaged in each day: