# Jash Dholani - How to Start (Selection) (Highlights)  ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/50792944) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Jash Dholani]] **Full Title**:: How to Start (Selection) **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/reader/fd/295007385) **Host**:: [[readwise.io]] **Highlighted**:: [[2025-04-22]] **Created**:: [[2025-04-26]] ## Highlights ### START UNDER PRESSURE - Deadlines produce pressure. Deadlines force you to turn your attention away from the trivial and refocus it on big tasks. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jsfvfmgqevwa2c91sn3125jy)) ^880861632 Deadline Driven Development - Let others take the pressure off. You take the pressure on. You carry it. You ask for more of it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jsfw9n4c88qj43kegxgcfmm1)) ^880863330 ### START WITH A RIVALRY - The easiest way to find a meaningful rivalry is to try and do something really hard. Something that’s never been done before. Something that calls for immense physical and mental effort. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jsfwzpacb1sdb2et3q97mr7v)) ^880864338 ### START BY DEVELOPING TERRAIN CONSCIOUSNESS - If you’re on the same terrain as Da Vinci—great. Now you can copy him. You can steal his secrets. You can pick up from where he left off. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jsfx31apzw2nt12sy6npz9ap)) ^880864440 - No matter what you are doing, you’re not the first to do it. Even if you’re literally inventing new things out of thin air, you’re following in the footsteps of Tesla, Edison, Kettering, Lindenberg, the Wright Brothers, and the guy who came up with the wheel. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jsfx4e6matk6xdjhjpdgfhe7)) ^880864463