This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Hardest Question First" created on February 26, 2020. The content features a speaker discussing the importance of addressing the most challenging tasks first in a startup environment, contrasting it with traditional test-taking strategies.
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Okay. The third one is do what really matters first. And this goes completely against human nature. I think if you're more naturally procrastinators, and if you have something that is hard to do, you leave it until the end. You don't want to do it at the beginning. Right. So it's the opposite. We're actually looking people that want to do the hard stuff first. I would say that I was a great test taker. I'm sure many people in the audience are guests, great test takers. And you took the SAT or GRE or whatever. And you know that when you take this test, what you do is you have to go and answer as many questions as you can really, really fast. Any question is worth the same. So if you find a hard question, you basically don't answer it and you come back to it. That's the strategy. But in a startup, it's actually the opposite. You should take the startup test by doing the following. You walk in and you read the test, and you find the hardest question, and then you answer just that question, and then you pass. Because if you don't answer that question, you will not pass. Right. So when I look at a company now in our portfolio, I'm always trying to figure out what is the weakest link in this company, what do we have to do to ensure success? And I want the founders to just work on that because nothing else matters. And there's always ways to keep you busy when you're in a company. Always ways to keep you busy. But there's only one thing that typically matters.