Naveen Jain
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When times are tough, you give up because you don't think it is worth it.
When times are tough, you give up because you don't think it is worth it.
Making money is simply a byproduct of doing things that improve other people's lives. Your self-worth comes from what you create. And if you haven't created anything and you own a lot, you're still a parasite on humanity. Entrepreneurship is simply about solving a problem. It's not about starting a company. You could be inside a company and be an entrepreneur because you're solving a problem.
Making money is simply a byproduct of doing things that improve other people's lives. Your self-worth comes from what you create. And if you haven't created anything and you own a lot, you're still a parasite on humanity. Entrepreneurship is simply about solving a problem. It's not about starting a company. You could be inside a company and be an entrepreneur because you're solving a problem.
If you can help a billion people live a better life, you can create a $100 billion company. Non-experts are better at solving the problem than experts are. And here's why. Making money is like having an orgasm. If you focus on it, you're never going to get it. You just have to learn to enjoy the process.
If you can help a billion people live a better life, you can create a $100 billion company. Non-experts are better at solving the problem than experts are. And here's why. Making money is like having an orgasm. If you focus on it, you're never going to get it. You just have to learn to enjoy the process.
You know, there is a method to the madness, and I'll give you the framework for that.
You know, there is a method to the madness, and I'll give you the framework for that.
It's really the strings of experiences, first of all, that makes you who you are. You know, a lot of us tend to go back and trying to find that one single moment that changed us, right? And it comes from this philosophy that we constantly keep saying, it's the last straw that breaks the camel's back. And we all know that it's never the last straw that breaks the camel back.
It's really the strings of experiences, first of all, that makes you who you are. You know, a lot of us tend to go back and trying to find that one single moment that changed us, right? And it comes from this philosophy that we constantly keep saying, it's the last straw that breaks the camel's back. And we all know that it's never the last straw that breaks the camel back.
It's all the other straws that were there before, right? So it's really the strings of experiences together that makes us who we are. Every experience in childhood that you have, good, bad, how your parents actually nurture you. And then as we get along, I would love to tell you a little bit more about this idea of counterintuitive parenting and how we incorporate that into our own world.
It's all the other straws that were there before, right? So it's really the strings of experiences together that makes us who we are. Every experience in childhood that you have, good, bad, how your parents actually nurture you. And then as we get along, I would love to tell you a little bit more about this idea of counterintuitive parenting and how we incorporate that into our own world.
Because, you know, when you are born and when your kids are born, they don't come with a user manual. It's not like, here's who I am, here's how you operate me, and here is my user manual, right? I wish. I wish, right? The point is, we all wish that way, but that's not how it happens. And we do our best to raise children. But what's really interesting is that
Because, you know, when you are born and when your kids are born, they don't come with a user manual. It's not like, here's who I am, here's how you operate me, and here is my user manual, right? I wish. I wish, right? The point is, we all wish that way, but that's not how it happens. And we do our best to raise children. But what's really interesting is that
If you grow up in humble beginnings like many of us do on who are the first time entrepreneurs, we all grow up in very humble beginnings. And we believe that shapes us who we become because we still have that hunger, that desire to actually do something. And it could be a desire to obviously be financially successful.
If you grow up in humble beginnings like many of us do on who are the first time entrepreneurs, we all grow up in very humble beginnings. And we believe that shapes us who we become because we still have that hunger, that desire to actually do something. And it could be a desire to obviously be financially successful.
But as you will learn, making money is simply a byproduct of doing things that improve other people's lives. And I'll give you how I look at starting every venture. I can't find wood here anymore in the office. Here, I have one for you. Here you go. It's a knock on wood. Every company so far I've started has been wildly successful.
But as you will learn, making money is simply a byproduct of doing things that improve other people's lives. And I'll give you how I look at starting every venture. I can't find wood here anymore in the office. Here, I have one for you. Here you go. It's a knock on wood. Every company so far I've started has been wildly successful.
You know, there is a method to the madness of how do you think about these audacious moonshot ideas? And I'll give you the framework for that. And then as we go along and we'll talk about that, now that once you become successful, how do you start to bring that type of hunger into the children? And how would you go about doing that?
You know, there is a method to the madness of how do you think about these audacious moonshot ideas? And I'll give you the framework for that. And then as we go along and we'll talk about that, now that once you become successful, how do you start to bring that type of hunger into the children? And how would you go about doing that?