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Long Term Thinking
extreme people get extreme results.
Sofia Alonso Bauer
May 18, 2025
“I think the biggest competitive advantage in business—either for a company or for an individual’s career—is long-term thinking with a broad view of how different systems in the world are going to come together. One of the notable aspects of compound growth is that the furthest out years are the most important. In a world where almost no one takes a truly long-term view, the market richly rewards those who do.
Trust the exponential, be patient, and be pleasantly surprised.”
Does balance exist for people?
What lies on the edge of extreme?
How does one learn to love the parts of yourself that you feel are unlovable?
“I will fail many times, and I will be really right once” is the entrepreneurs’ way. You have to give yourself a lot of chances to get lucky.
One of the most powerful lessons to learn is that you can figure out what to do in situations that seem to have no solution. The more times you do this, the more you will believe it. Grit comes from learning you can get back up after you get knocked down.
Extreme people get extreme results. Working a lot comes with huge life trade-offs, and it’s perfectly rational to decide not to do it. But it has a lot of advantages. As in most cases, momentum compounds, and success begets success.
Work stamina seems to be one of the biggest predictors of long-term success.
One of the great joys in life is finding your purpose, excelling at it, and discovering that your impact matters to something larger than yourself.
A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.
People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever reaching anywhere near their potential.
Ask for what you want. You usually won’t get it, and often the rejection will be painful. But when this works, it works surprisingly well.
Small Life Diary Update:
Little brothers graduation had me driving out at 6:30am to San Antonio, TX. - Older sister came to me and told me I was required to shower, and wear one of her dresses. 5am getting up to shave and shower. Ouch.
05/18/25 - how in the world am I going to start dating again? Step 1: make business successful again. Step 2: move. Step 3: download an app? Step 4: Force myself to go on dates consistently until I’m not petrified of the idea and eventually find someone who is willing to put up with a founder who has no life besides her work? Who doesn’t feel competitive with me or try and belittle my passions and pursuits? Does a man like this even exist? Who do I want to have babies with and am I really on a ticking clock counting down?