When Mayor Booker was at Stanford University, he would post two or three things on a whiteboard in his dorm room, and that would be his focus. Nothing, he told the FOCUS 100 Symposium, would stop him from focusing on it. It is this kind of focus and
determination that helps him run an entire city and the tech startup #WayWire at the same time Mayor Booker advises that you need to feel a core sense of purpose in
whatever it is you do in order to succeed. Blocking out
distracting factors like ego, vanity, or anything else, will serve to boost your getting there quicker.