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    How to Go Big, Create Wealth,
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    PETER DIAMANDIS and STEVEN KOTLER

    PETER DIAMANDIS is chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, a nonprofit which offers large incentive prizes for radical
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    million prize offered for cars which achieve 100 miles-per-gallon fuel efficiency. Dr. Diamandis is also co-founder and chairman
    of Singularity University, co-founder and vice-chairman of Human Longevity Inc. and co-founder and co-chairman of Planetary
    Resources. He and Steven Kotler co-authored Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think. He is a graduate of MIT and
    Harvard Medical School.
    STEVEN KOTLER is a best-selling author and an award-winning journalist. His articles have appeared in 75 publications
    including Wired, Popular Science, National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine. He is the co-founder and director of
    research at the Flow Genome project. He writes a blog for Forbes about innovation (Far Frontiers) and another for Psychology
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    MAIN IDEA 1. What exactly are exponential technologies? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 2 - 3


    The world's biggest problems are today's biggest Exponential technologies are those which don't just grow in a
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    technologies
    become an "exponential entrepreneur" – that is, an aren't very good at understanding exponentials because their
    entrepreneur who harnesses the growing power of growth is so small in the early stages that it looks like nothing
    exponential technologies to best effect. e is happening. However, thanks to computers, sensors and
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    2. What is the bold mindset? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 4 - 5


    To survive and ultimately thrive in an exponential world, you
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    entrepreneurs have the chance to shine. 3. How to join the bold crowd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 6 - 8
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    you have the passion, you can bring real change
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