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Moonshot Thinking
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Moonshot thinking means shooting for 10 times bigger instead of just 10% better, to create a perspective shift that enables entrepreneurs to push their teams and embrace creativity and weirdness in order to achieve greater success, however, it is not a smartness contest with competitors.
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