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The idea that most people just talk a lot and don't take action has been rediscovered for thousand of years. They should cover that in the Introduction.

It's #52 on this enjoyable list.

"That was not "your idea" unless you shipped something, otherwise I invented Facebook, Nest and Oculus Rift"

http://www.talkingquickly.co.uk/2015/04/what-id-tell-myself-...

Just keep telling yourself you don't have an idea until you ship.

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I'm fond of saying that founders don't need an idea, they need a plan. An idea is just a pie in the sky, but a plan can be executed and is therefore more easily dismissed as unrealistic or flawed. So if anyone wants to tell me their plan I'm all ears :)

I want you to appreciate the cruel irony of this situation.

My problem was the gap between knowing and doing, but if I read about it, which I did quite often, I wouldn't be able to take advantage of this knowledge due to... that same gap!

If I followed this correctly, the gap is between talking and doing, not between reading and doing. Reading is not the problem.

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