9 Lessons I Learned From Peter Diamandis About Innovation, Exponential Thinking, and Abundance
There is a story Peter Diamandis often tells about the moon. In the 1960s, when President Kennedy declared that America would land a man on the moon before the decade was out, it was more than a technological challenge. It was a bet on abundance.
A small group of scientists and engineers were being asked to do the impossible, not by cutting corners or conserving what little they had, but by assuming that new knowledge, new resources, and new tools would appear if they pushed hard enough. And, somehow, they did.
Diamandis grew up in the shadow of that era. For him, the moonshot was not just a chapter in history but a framework for thinking.
He has spent his life chasing versions of that idea—grand challenges that sound improbable until you realize they are already in motion.
The XPRIZE, commercial spaceflight, asteroid mining, even radical longevity research: each one takes the logic of scarcity that governs most of our daily lives and flips it on its head. What if, instead of asking "how do we get by with less," we asked "what becomes possible if there is always more?"
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A small group of scientists and engineers were being asked to do the impossible, not by cutting corners or conserving what little they had, but by assuming that new knowledge, new resources, and new tools would appear if they pushed hard enough. And, somehow, they did.
Diamandis grew up in the shadow of that era. For him, the moonshot was not just a chapter in history but a framework for thinking.
He has spent his life chasing versions of that idea—grand challenges that sound improbable until you realize they are already in motion.
The XPRIZE, commercial spaceflight, asteroid mining, even radical longevity research: each one takes the logic of scarcity that governs most of our daily lives and flips it on its head. What if, instead of asking "how do we get by with less," we asked "what becomes possible if there is always more?"
9 Lessons I Learned From Peter Diamandis About Innovation, Exponential Thinking, and Abundance
There is a story Peter Diamandis often tells about the moon. In the 1960s, when President Kennedy declared that America would land a man on the moon before the decade was out, it was more than a technological challenge. It was a bet on abundance.
A small group of scientists and engineers were being asked to do the impossible, not by cutting corners or conserving what little they had, but by assuming that new knowledge, new resources, and new tools would appear if they pushed hard enough. And, somehow, they did.
Diamandis grew up in the shadow of that era. For him, the moonshot was not just a chapter in history but a framework for thinking.
He has spent his life chasing versions of that idea—grand challenges that sound improbable until you realize they are already in motion.
The XPRIZE, commercial spaceflight, asteroid mining, even radical longevity research: each one takes the logic of scarcity that governs most of our daily lives and flips it on its head. What if, instead of asking "how do we get by with less," we asked "what becomes possible if there is always more?"
A small group of scientists and engineers were being asked to do the impossible, not by cutting corners or conserving what little they had, but by assuming that new knowledge, new resources, and new tools would appear if they pushed hard enough. And, somehow, they did.
Diamandis grew up in the shadow of that era. For him, the moonshot was not just a chapter in history but a framework for thinking.
He has spent his life chasing versions of that idea—grand challenges that sound improbable until you realize they are already in motion.
The XPRIZE, commercial spaceflight, asteroid mining, even radical longevity research: each one takes the logic of scarcity that governs most of our daily lives and flips it on its head. What if, instead of asking "how do we get by with less," we asked "what becomes possible if there is always more?"
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| BN ID: | 2940184428581 |
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| Publisher: | Digital Products Management |
| Publication date: | 10/04/2025 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 257 KB |
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