How to succeed at school:
- Do as you’re told
- Follow the rules
- Fit in
- Avoid failure
- Absorb and regurgitate academic knowledge
- Provide a single correct answer
- Improve your weaknesses
- Perform well on individual assignments

How to succeed in business:
- Question established ways of doing things
- Change the rules
- Stand out
- Risk failure to win bigger
- Try stuff out and see what happens
- Consider multiple possibilities and perspectives
- Capitalize on your strengths
- Work as a team

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