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Chapter 3: Why should we stop trying to control our lives?
Chapter 4: What causes young men to shift politically to the right?
And you have so many more allies. You have people in the stands cheering for you. You have the audience. You have all of these other things that are behind you. But in the beginning, it's just you with a stick against a bear. And arguably that fight is a harder fight to win than beating a dragon when you have a nuclear bomb and six nations behind you.
And so it's not even like the size of the hardship. It's just also the resources and how few of them you have and how so much of the beginning is literally burning the one thing you have, which is time.
because you have no leverage you don't have the money to pay other people to help you you don't have the resources to go like get someone to to no one can learn it for you it's like there's a lot of the things that that we care about a lot like no one can work out for you doesn't matter how much money you have no one can learn skills for you and so in the early days like it feels so painful because you're like you look around to see who can help you and then you're like fuck it's me again and
And I think getting comfortable with the idea that each of these things, kind of like Slumdog Millionaire, if you've seen that movie where he, I'll give you the TLDR, he goes through his entire life of randomness and he gets on the who wants to be a millionaire version in India. And it has 12 questions to make a million dollars.
And from only 12 random experiences in his life that seemed meaningless at the time, was he able to answer all of the questions and then ultimately win? The skills that you develop along the way, like Steve Jobs learning calligraphy that then became Apple Fonts that transformed how we type.
Those early days, that little trench winning in the weeds, oftentimes gives you these huge advantages later on because you have more context than anyone else. And so rather than lament them and hate the fact that you're going through it, remembering that these will be arrows that you put in the quiver that you're going to be using to slay the future bigger dragons. And so...
expecting it to be easy is what makes it much harder than it ever is.
I've always loved earning my stripes with the things that I've done, whether it was with nightlife or running the podcast or doing whatever. And I think... There's like a degree of nobility to it, but functionally that's kind of, that's just like, it's a nothing. Like what is the nobility?
But I think the reason that you can feel noble about it and the reason that it gives you a positive reward is you know that you understand every single inch of the things. And that if you want to hold a conversation, we went out for dinner with our new CFO and accounts people on Saturday. And they said, you ask a lot of questions.
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