Pick Partners With Intelligence, Energy and Integrity - Naval  ## Metadata - Author: **Naval** - Full Title: Pick Partners With Intelligence, Energy and Integrity - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/4a0890a2-a9dc-402f-9e34-310e327f6530 ## Highlights - Delegation Is The Most Important Thing Summary: When i was younger, i used to try and talk people into things. I wasn't this idea that you can sell someone into doing something but you can't keep them motivated. Weathing signals is very, very important. You have to make sure people actually are high energy and want to do what you want them to do. Transcript: Speaker 2 With respect to the energy, there was this interesting thing from sam altman a while back where he was talking about delegation. And he saying, one of the important things for delegation is delegate to people who are actually good at the thing that you want them to do. It's the most obvious thing, but it seems like you want a partner with people who naturally going to do the things that you want them to do. Speaker 1 Ye, i almost won't start a company or hire a person or work with somebody if i just don't think they're into what i want them to do. When i was younger, i used to try and talk people into things. I wasn this idea that you can sell someone into doing something, but you can't. You can't keep them motivated. You can get them inspired initially. It might work if you're a king like henry the fifth, and you try to get them to discharge into battle, and then they'll it out. But if you're trying to keep someone motivated for the long term, that motivation has to come intrinsically. You can't just create it, nor can you be the crutch for them if they don't have that intrinsic motivation. So you have to make sure people actually are high energy and want to do what you want them to do, or what you want to work with them. Weathing signals is very, very important. ([Time 0:01:18](https://share.snipd.com/snip/dffc14f5-4c18-4f30-8578-250a83bdd646))