Ideas, action, attention. These are what matter in the new economy. #Habits

24 May 2020 · 1 min

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TJ Walker argues that today’s economy is driven by three primary forces: generating new ideas, taking massive action to realize those ideas, and attracting attention to them. He contrasts this with the prior century’s emphasis on following rules, credentials, and staying in line, and urges listeners to develop skills in idea-generation, execution, and publicity to succeed.

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We live in a new world today where the economy is really based on three primary forces. Number one, new ideas. Number two, taking massive action to make that idea become real. And number three, bringing attention to that new idea. This is completely different than how the world's been organized for the last hundred years, when it was more about following the rules, getting credentials, staying in line, and frankly, not drawing attention. I'm not saying it's better or worse, but it. This is the way the world works. So if you want to be successful, you have to become better, faster at coming up with new good ideas, taking action, devoting your life to those ideas, and then getting attention for your ideas.