I chose to be broke for a year

The biggest risk you have is spending your life trying to do a really good job at the wrong thing. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. For any person with high potential. 'Cause it'll sap you. Snap your will, sap your time, sap your resources, slap your energy, sap your belief in yourself. This is Sean Purie. He sold his company to Amazon and Twitch for millions, and he now runs one of the most successful business podcasts in the world with millions of listeners. I know this because I spent ten years doing things only for like Ooh, if this work, it'd be amazing. The work has to be the win. Yeah.

The win can't be some future hypothetical payoff. Because you enjoy it, you do it all the time. Because you do it all the time, you get really good at it. Because you get really good at it, you do get the results. Right. That's the flywheel. In this episode we talk about what it takes to be successful, how to work smarter, not harder, and how to live a good life. I think hard work is over and it's probably maybe the fourth or fifth most important variable. I feel like I can rule the world, I know I could be what I want to Alright, today's a special episode because I'm the guest of today's episode. Normally we have guests on and we ask them all about their life, their philosophies, how they work, how they did it, how they made it.

At this time. I'm the guest because my former intern, Walter, uh created his own podcast. He used to work for me when he was I don't know, eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old. He was in college. And he's gone on to create a cool podcast and he asked me to come on. And so I went on on one of the first episodes of his thing. And I watched it and I was like, This is actually a really good interview. And the reason why is because It's a lot of information about

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