A short promotional/persuasive talk by Utkarsh Amitabh introducing the Network Capital CEO Fellowship. He frames the fellowship as a program to help participants build a "category of one" and explains its three core modules—critical thinking, writing, and public speaking—delivered in a month-long immersive cohort with community-based deliberate practice.
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Hi, everyone. I'm Utkarsh, here to tell you about the Network Capital CEO Fellowship. Think of the CEO Fellowship as your GPS for your category of one. As we march into the future, our goal is not that everyone becomes a CEO of a company or tries to build a career in a particular direction, but we designed the CEO Fellowship so that you can drive your career in the direction you want to take it, build your category of one, and inspire others to do the same. Essentially, becoming a CEO is a lot more than a designation. It's the way of looking at life, and it's a way of looking at your relationship with work so that you can create something that you can truly be proud of. And in the process, you will, I'm sure, go on to inspire hundreds and thousands of people. But the journey won't be cracking a bunch of formulas and, you know, being inflicted by the fear of missing out or what have you. Becoming a CEO entails sitting quietly, thinking deeply, figuring out the mental models in your industry, in your work life that others are not thinking about. Essentially, you can't expect to do what everybody else is doing and get a significantly different result. So our first module in the Network Capital CEO Fellowship is critical thinking. And we learn to pick up the case studies from history, geography, biology, sciences, business, and learn to teach you develop a lattice work of mental models, as Charlie Munger puts it. The second component is writing. Clearly, we do have a separate writing fellowship, but the way you learn to communicate your ideas through the power of words is an important component in how you build your category of one. And I don't know a single CEO from Satya Nadella to Warren Buffet to leaders of movements and social organizations who are leading a powerful change but are not writing well. So in the fellowship, we will do deliberate practice about writing purposefully. If you're interested in just fine tuning your writing skills, perhaps the writing fellowship would be a closer match. But I think this entire trinity of critical thinking, writing and public speaking is something that we hold dear to us on Network Capital. And our goal is by the time you graduate from the fellowship, you would have mastered these three things. Writing and public speaking are closely related. You can't really expect to speak well if you don't write well. So the flow is module one be critical thinking. Module two would be writing, and module three would be public speaking. You'll be doing this with the help of a community, A bunch of people who, like you, want to build their category of one, want to lead organizations, social movements, and create the change that they can one day be proud of. This is not just for people in business, but even poets. Today, if you're a poet, you have to figure out various platforms you understand how to get your messaging across to people, build your community, inspire readers to engage with you. And I think this month long immersive program will give you the content, the insights, and the deliberate practice framework where you can try and compound your way to the success that you look forward to. I'm really excited for bringing the network Capitol C, your fellowship's third cohort, to you, and this is something that will be really special. Invest this time, invest this energy, and together I'm sure we will build our categories of one. Thank you.
