Chasing Success vs True Fulfilment - Nat Eliason

Some of the best parts of life, I think, are things that you cannot appreciate or understand until you experience them. I call these like known costs with unknowable benefits. I wish I focused less on work. I wish I spent more time with my family. You basically never hear, I wish I had had fewer kids, I wish I had spent more time on work, I wish I had spent less time with my partner.

You have to deliberately try to overcome your short-term bias. If everybody on an executive team agrees with a decision, you shouldn't do it because it means that you haven't fully explored the risks or the possible downsides. You need to like cancel the meeting, everybody go off for a day or two, think about what you're missing there, and then come back and try to present what the like devil's advocate is for it. Matt Eliza, welcome to the podcast.

How are you doing? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on. So you have a book coming out soon, Crypto Confidential, which is very exciting. But I don't really talk much about crypto stuff.

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