This is your final velocity guide.

Featuring Navid!

• 🧠 Mindset of the Week (MotW)
• 🦄 Person of the Week

💭 Thoughts

• Sigil dm'd me a couple years back about ideas to help people in Innovate, which made me think more about "success" in TKS. I thought I'd turn my response into a mini-playbook. TL;DR is that I think real success in TKS is developing a deeper understanding of yourself and the world, building valuable skills, growing your network, and expanding your "T". If you're looking at vanity metrics for success (number of article views, speaking opportunities, internships...) or comparing yourself to others, you're thinking about it the wrong way.

  • Read the full response here.

• How can you understand and internalize the importance of certain aspects in TKS? There are many things you've learned during the program, but I don't think you truly understand the value and purpose of them. Examples might include writing newsletters, setting up weekly meetings, listening to podcasts, preparing for squad syncs, and the health/fitness component of Velocity (that 80% of you forgot existed). Do you understand the full importance of these things? If not, what can you do to seek understanding?

  Suggestion:

  • [ ] Create a list of things you've learned during TKS - the more specific, the better. Rate each one (1-10) by how well you understand the why and importance behind it.
  • [ ] For the areas you might not fully understand, seek understanding. You figure out how to do this.
  • Why is doing this valuable? Because if you don't understand something that could add a ton of value to you (i.e. everything in TKS), then you won't be able to get the full value from it. If you understand each area, you can extract the full value from the things you've learned and use it to help you achieve the things you want in life.

Note from Pranav:

This is a very famous image from The Matrix Movie. In it Morpheus says - “If you take the blue pill, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.” i.e you go back to being your old self. If you take red pill, I’ll show you deep the rabbit hole goes”

Now that TKS has almost come to an end - it’s your choice.

Red Pill or Blue Pill?