Making Tradeoffs is the Price of Growth | Ep 864

Know that when you have hard decisions in front of you, there's nothing wrong with that. It means if anything, you've picked all the easy paths. You've already cut the low-hanging fruit off. You've already made the easy ones that have almost no trade-off. But what happens later is you get to real difficult to reverse decisions.

And so at that point, you have to put your big boy pants on and say, I gotta make a trade. Greetings, Earthlings. I wanted to make this uh this live, this broadcast, if you will. Because I had a really good conversation last week with an entrepreneur and it was something, something came up that I know affects all of us. And so the entrepreneur was dealing with a rock and a hard place decision, right?

There's two two paths you could do, and apparently there's a cost on either side. And so I thought this was such an interesting thing because most of the biggest decisions in life are scary because you've already made all the easy decisions that you can make. Right? And so like most of us, when there's an easy and obvious decision that has almost no downside and all upside, we make those as fast as we can. And so most of our lives are spent with only hard decisions left.

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