17 May 2026 Speaker: Graham Weaver Original Link: Stanford GSB Last Lecture Series on YouTube How to Live an Asymmetric Life My Reflections Aim to live an asymmetric life. Doing the linear returns life is not what you are meant for. The four key things to live an asymmetric life – do hard things, do your thing, do it for decades, write your story. Don’t see where you are going and make it your story. Write your story and then go make it happen. Suffering will happen - that’s just the point of doing hard things. Even if you do a job, there will be sufferings. But if you follow the four rules, you will at least suffer for the “right” thing. Internalise the fact that there will be suffering. Life is just a series of sufferings with some success sprinkled in between. Just going to a beach and staying there all day will NOT give you happiness. Everything that you want in life, anything worthy at all, is on the other side of “it gets worse”. You have to go through feeling worse before you…
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