Throwback: Legacy Is A Lie You Tell Yourself | Ep 580

No one will remember you. And that's a statement that bothers a lot of people. And if that does bug you, then you probably should look away from the rest of this. And my team was going back and forth on even posting this because they were like, dude, there's so many people that are going to disagree with this. And I'm okay with that.

And this is not me in any way saying that my beliefs should be your beliefs or that your beliefs are wrong. I am simply explaining my beliefs. And the reason I'm doing that is because I think one of the hardest parts of entrepreneurship is managing emotions and managing anxiety and managing stress so that you can make higher quality decisions. And high quality decisions are one of those things that compound over a long period of time because we make hundreds and hundreds of decisions every single day, every single week for our business.

And it's many small micros that can go all the way up. One, you know, 1% better every day compounded for 365 days is 37x what you started and, you know, 10% or 1.1% worse. goes down to zero at the end of the year. And so managing my mental state has been a continuous learning experience for me. And the set of beliefs that sits at the core of that is what I would consider optimistic nihilism.

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