Academic success

• Focus mostly on yourself

• Showing off

• Improving yourself

• Iterating on yourself

Focus is mostly inward.

Professional success

• Start focusing on others

• Help others achieve their goals

• Become a good communicator

• Make sure to show your work and get recognition

Balance focus inward and outward

Entrepreneurial success

• Focus on giving value to others

• Find ways to scale your value giving operation

• Value given must be disproportionate to value received

• You don't really matter, only others

Focus outward. Focus on value given to others.