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Ways to Outgrow
& Outlearn Everyone
You Know

- Etienne Garbugli / Product Design & Marketing Consultant -

Lets be edgy...
“ You are the dumbest you'll
ever be right now.
- Tom Lehman, Rap Genius
“ You are the dumbest you'll
ever be right now.
- Tom Lehman, Rap Genius

And tha
t's actu
ally kin
d of i n
spiring.
..
“ In the business world,
everyone is paid in two coins:
Cash and Experience.
- Harold Geneen, Businessman

Take the experience first.

The cash will come later.
To get there...
1.

“ Focus on the learning process

and not the result.
- Jacques Martin, Ice Hockey Coach
2.

Be proactive. Decide what you

want to learn.

End-to-end Politics
marketing
skills
3.

Seek experiences that throw

you out of your comfort zone.
4.
Accept growth. You’re not who
you were yesterday and you
certainly won’t be the same
tomorrow.
5.
Have postmortems for every
important things you do.
Deconstruct successes and
failures.
6.

Be honest with yourself.

There’s always a good excuse
when you’re looking for one...

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7.

Don’t be afraid to admit when

you don’t know something.
8.

Read, teach, click, study.

Do everything you can to

learn but, do it with a plan.
9.
Take things apart. Learn to
deconstruct to understand
how things were made and
recognize patterns.

Reverse engineering really

is an underrated skill.
10.

“ Always seek negative

feedback, even though it can
be mentally painful.
- Elon Musk, Inventor and Entrepreneur

Integrate a feedback loop

straight into your activities.
10.

“ Always seek negative

feedback, even though it can
be mentally painful.
- Elon Musk, Inventor and Entrepreneur

Integrate a feedback loop

straight into your activities.
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11.
Listen. Knowledge doesn't
always come from the
expected places. Anyone can
teach you a thing or two.

In this presentation:

√ A statistician √ An advertiser
√ An inventor √ Entrepreneurs
√ An author √ A ice hockey coach
12.
Seek out marginal voices. Most
of what we see and hear is the
work of a few million people.
But, there’s more than 7.2
billion of us...

Here

Here Here

And
here
13.

Avoid automatisms. Carve

your own path to knowledge.

or or
14.

Connect and help out. Reply to

everyone.

Dear prince of
Nigeria,

Thank you for your

generous offer. I’m
glad I can be of
assistance with your
14.

Connect and help out. Reply to

everyone.

Dear prince of
Well... Maybe not
Nigeria,
everyone.
Thank you for your
generous offer. I’m
glad I can be of
assistance with your
15.

See no competition. Learn by

sharing and interacting with
so-called competitors.
16.

Don’t settle. Things will get in

the way, but don’t settle.
17.

“ Be polite, courteous, and

gentle, but ignore comments,
praise, and criticism from
people you wouldn't hire.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author and Statistician

…or people you wouldn’t

want to become.
Create a system
18.

“ You don't know what you

know until you write it down.
Write it to understand it.
- Alan Webber, Fast Company Creator

Write everything you learn.

This presentation is the
result of six years of writing. Read
How
19.

Revisit what you know. Track

your progress. Be objective.

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Guitar Architecture
20.

“ Good entrepreneurs learn

from their own mistakes.
Great entrepreneurs learn
from others mistakes.
- Dave McClure, Entrepreneur

Great self-learners also learn

from others mistakes.
21.

“ Remain humble to keep on

learning and growing.
- JF Bouchard, Sid Lee Co-Founder

It’s when you start thinking that

you know that you stop learning
and become complacent.
22.
Prioritize. It's impossible to be
an expert at everything. You
push one side and the other
side breaks.

Red
23.

Knowing is only half the battle.

And do And don’t do

Things you
Focus here
know

Things you
//
don’t know
24.

“ Those who can, do; those who

can't, teach.
- George Bernard Shaw, Playwright

Strike a balance between

knowledge and action.
 Etienne Garbugli
Product Design & Marketing Consultant

@egarbugli /egarbugli

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