Moment 130: Shopify's President: The 1 Skill You MUST Have To Thrive In Business: Harley Finkelstein

Uh Reference spikiness. You know, you said you And that may gave me flashbacks to a conversation I had with um Jimmy Carr where he said we don't need more people that are shit at physics. Find the thing you're good at and like double down there. As career advice for an entrepreneur, or someone that's not an entrepreneur.

What do you mean by spikiness and why is it important? Oh so this is gonna be uh a long winded way to get there, but I think it's important. Um I um When I was building that tee shirt business in college A mentor of mine. Say his name. His name is Philip Rimer. He's a senior partner at a very prestigious law firm called Dentons. They're in the U They're everywhere, they're all over the world.

He's like you know, he's had this incredible white shoe law firm career. He basically convinced me to go to law school. Mm. And he convinced me to go to law school not to become A lawyer.

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