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The Remarkable Advantage of Abundant Thinking | First Round Review

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Katia Verresen is one of the most sought-after leadership coaches in tech. Here's how she's seen abundant thinking transform careers and companies.

If you consider yourself to be ambitious , this has happened to you. Your alarm goes off, and you’re ambushed by thoughts of the grind ahead; finding that needle in a haystack; denting the universe; the roller coaster that never ends — and many more horrible but unfortunately apt cliches. Today, the groupthink in tech largely believes that you have to suffer and barely survive to succeed. But this is a trap, says sought-after executive coach Katia Verresen , who counsels leaders at Facebook , Stanford , Airbnb , Twitter , and a number of prominent startups . “You’re not going to build a billio

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