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Significance During Exponential Times from Peter Diamandis
Significance is the feeling that your life (and your work) is meaningful and has a lasting impact.
And during the decade ahead, your impact can be greater than at any time in history. Leveraging AI, Robotics, Blockchain, Sensors, Networks and more, each of us has the ability to positively impact the lives of 1 billion people—what I call 10^9+ impact.
Significance Over Success – Choosing Your Target
Too many people spend their whole life on a treadmill striving for financial success or fame.
I’ve seen many friends take a job or start a company because they think it's a quick way to get rich or get noticed (i.e., to be successful).
Throughout my own career, whenever I've started a company just to make money, it's been a big mistake. Starting any successful company is always hard work, and if my heart isn't in it for the right reasons, the effort becomes unfulfilling and I give up before the job is done.
On the flip side, when I start a company to solve a problem that’s truly important to me, one that is purpose-driven, that excites me, even if the solution takes 10 years, every day on that journey is an amazing learning experience, well spent and fulfilling.
“When given a choice to prioritize significance (meaningfulness) over success (financial or otherwise), take it.”
The question is, how do you choose what to focus on?
One piece of sage advice shared with me by my friend Tom Bilyeu (Impact Theory), who first heard this from his father, says it best:
"Find something you would die for, and live for it."
Ultimately, it's about creating a life worth living, being motivated by something that wakes you up in the morning and keeps you going throughout the day. This principle isn't about martyrdom—it's about finding your non-negotiable mission. It's about discovering what gets you jumping out of bed each day, eager to make a difference.
Your Action Plan for Impact
Once you've identified it, here's your action plan:
1. Dive deep into research: Read everything you can, challenge assumptions, talk to experts. Become fluent in the language of your chosen field.
2. Try to kill your idea (seriously): Identify every weakness, understand every obstacle, and expose every risk. If it survives your toughest scrutiny, you're onto something extraordinary.
3. Take decisive action: Here are a few options to consider:
a) Start a company to solve the problem
b) Invest in entrepreneurs solving the problem
c) Create an incentive prize (an XPRIZE)
d) Find others working on the cause and join them
e) Become a platform – connect talent with resources to solve the problem
f) Start a fund, gather capital and invest it in solutions that solve the problem
A Community & Faculty to Support Your Mission
Next, you need a community and a group of mentors to support your mission and strengthen your mindset. This is why I created my 500-person executive mastermind group called Abundance360. The program is highly selective, admitting CEOs, founders, and exponential entrepreneurs who want to change the world, and have the mindset and means to do so.
Entrepreneurs who support each other to go big, create wealth, and positively impact the world.
Significance is the feeling that your life (and your work) is meaningful and has a lasting impact.
And during the decade ahead, your impact can be greater than at any time in history. Leveraging AI, Robotics, Blockchain, Sensors, Networks and more, each of us has the ability to positively impact the lives of 1 billion people—what I call 10^9+ impact.
Significance Over Success – Choosing Your Target
Too many people spend their whole life on a treadmill striving for financial success or fame.
I’ve seen many friends take a job or start a company because they think it's a quick way to get rich or get noticed (i.e., to be successful).
Throughout my own career, whenever I've started a company just to make money, it's been a big mistake. Starting any successful company is always hard work, and if my heart isn't in it for the right reasons, the effort becomes unfulfilling and I give up before the job is done.
On the flip side, when I start a company to solve a problem that’s truly important to me, one that is purpose-driven, that excites me, even if the solution takes 10 years, every day on that journey is an amazing learning experience, well spent and fulfilling.
“When given a choice to prioritize significance (meaningfulness) over success (financial or otherwise), take it.”
The question is, how do you choose what to focus on?
One piece of sage advice shared with me by my friend Tom Bilyeu (Impact Theory), who first heard this from his father, says it best:
"Find something you would die for, and live for it."
Ultimately, it's about creating a life worth living, being motivated by something that wakes you up in the morning and keeps you going throughout the day. This principle isn't about martyrdom—it's about finding your non-negotiable mission. It's about discovering what gets you jumping out of bed each day, eager to make a difference.
Your Action Plan for Impact
Once you've identified it, here's your action plan:
1. Dive deep into research: Read everything you can, challenge assumptions, talk to experts. Become fluent in the language of your chosen field.
2. Try to kill your idea (seriously): Identify every weakness, understand every obstacle, and expose every risk. If it survives your toughest scrutiny, you're onto something extraordinary.
3. Take decisive action: Here are a few options to consider:
a) Start a company to solve the problem
b) Invest in entrepreneurs solving the problem
c) Create an incentive prize (an XPRIZE)
d) Find others working on the cause and join them
e) Become a platform – connect talent with resources to solve the problem
f) Start a fund, gather capital and invest it in solutions that solve the problem
A Community & Faculty to Support Your Mission
Next, you need a community and a group of mentors to support your mission and strengthen your mindset. This is why I created my 500-person executive mastermind group called Abundance360. The program is highly selective, admitting CEOs, founders, and exponential entrepreneurs who want to change the world, and have the mindset and means to do so.
Entrepreneurs who support each other to go big, create wealth, and positively impact the world.