Hey Reader,
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Earlier this week, I told you about the importance of spending your time wisely.
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People always say that time is money.
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But that’s not entirely true, is it?
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Because you can get more money, but you’ll never have more time than you have right now.
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That means one of those is infinitely more valuable than the other.
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Yet, people toss around time like it’s nothing.
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And that’s why they fail.
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Now, let me tell you about the man who understood this better than almost anyone.
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He spent decades working toward a singular goal.
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He was born in a small town in Iowa in 1927.
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Unlike most people from his small town, he was able to do something incredibly worthwhile and then some.
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After graduating from college with a BA in physics and mathematics, he went on to earn his Ph.D. in physics from MIT.
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After struggling in a stagnant corporate landscape for 4 years, he and some colleagues known as the ‘Traitorous Eight’ founded their own company.
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With his company, he went on to invent the integrated circuit in 1959. Despite this apparent success, the importance of it wasn’t felt until far later.
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It wasn’t until nearly a decade later that the effects of his invention began to take shape.
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By 1968, he co-founded Intel. By now, you know I’m describing none other than Robert Noyce. At the time of his death, he was worth over $3.7 billion dollars.
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So, it’s fair to say that eventually, he found massive success. But his journey to success was long, arduous, and slow. Now, when I first learned the story of Robert Noyce, two crucial things sprung to mind.
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There’s one trait that differentiates Robert Noyce from everybody else — and it’s actually something that worked to his detriment.
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Robert Noyce understood yet another concept better than anybody, and it was one of the primary reasons for his success, and it’s not simply the value of time.
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Have a think to see if you can figure out what those two things are.
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If you can figure it out, I’ll be impressed.
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But it’s probably not what you think. Either way, I’ll give you the answer next week.
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Speak soon,
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Verbakel