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“The richness and meaning arises in part from choosing it at the expense of all other places you could be and things you could be doing. Accepting a place’s shortcomings, the things it lacks, and its imperfections is essential to appreciating everything it does have to offer.”
When everything is easy, nothing feels meaningful.
It's basic human psychology. We humans generally tend to value what we struggle to achieve. The pride of mastery, the satisfaction of growing our skills, and the sense of belonging to a skilled, like-minded community are powerful motivators which only are possible when there's something substantial
... See moreIf the world was full of probabilistic thinkers, no one would build the next SpaceX or Tesla. The best founders put it all on the line. You want to be a probabilistic thinker as an investor, but a deterministic thinker as an entrepreneur.
our society is increasingly splintered between those who’ve never experienced financial stress and those forced to live with it daily.
So sometimes, we quit. We quit the job thinking wrongly that the next company will be so much better. We quit the startup because it’s apparently not working. We just get tired, and why shouldn’t we be tired and why shouldn’t we quit? Life’s too short and all that.
But the ones who eventually succeed are the ones who plodded through the 5,999... See more
But the ones who eventually succeed are the ones who plodded through the 5,999... See more
Invention is Drudgery
