This has got to be, in my opinion, my 2nd favorite PG essay, right after the 'How Not to Die' essay.
So here in sum is how determination seems to work: it consists of willfulness balanced with discipline, aimed by ambition.
The essay is probably meant to help investors pick good investments. But I say that founders can use it to help pick good co-founders, as well as improve themselves. I would love to read more on things/characteristics about a person that might give evidence of a person's willfulness, discipline and ambition, or lack thereof.
So here in sum is how determination seems to work: it consists of willfulness balanced with discipline, aimed by ambition.
The essay is probably meant to help investors pick good investments. But I say that founders can use it to help pick good co-founders, as well as improve themselves. I would love to read more on things/characteristics about a person that might give evidence of a person's willfulness, discipline and ambition, or lack thereof.