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Oct 2020
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61: Competition is For Losers (And How T...

MATTHEW HUSSEY
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In his book Zero To One, the venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel famously says: “Competition is for losers”.

Whether you are running a business, deciding what to do with your life, looking for a relationship – if you worry about what everyone else is doing, you’ll end up chasing the wrong thing.

The only way to escape competition, and feel deeply confident to your soul, is to have your own unique monopoly.

You don’t need to win at everything to get a great relationship – you only need to build your unique monopoly in a way that makes you irreplaceable for the right person... 

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