It’s been a wild ten years for me. Here’s a bunch of things I’ve learned in the last decade:
Things that seem disastrous at the time can happen for a reason.
Some of my most important learnings came from failures that I thought were the end of the world in the moment.
Things that seem disastrous at the time can happen for a reason.
Some of my most important learnings came from failures that I thought were the end of the world in the moment.
The most important success factor in your work is who you choose to work with.
This has been more important to my success than having the right idea, the right resources, or anything else. Having the right people around you is the difference between success and failure.
This has been more important to my success than having the right idea, the right resources, or anything else. Having the right people around you is the difference between success and failure.
No matter where you are at, you are probably giving up too early. Big things take time to succeed at.
No one does everything well. You are not an exception.
Focus on your one superpower and be excellent at that, and the universe will take care of the rest.
Focus on your one superpower and be excellent at that, and the universe will take care of the rest.
There is an endless treadmill of goals.
10 yrs ago we had a small startup called Justin.tv. I thought if I could just make a little $ I’d be set. Thus followed a decade of trying to raise more money, achieve skyrocketing valuations, start bigger cos..it never ends
10 yrs ago we had a small startup called Justin.tv. I thought if I could just make a little $ I’d be set. Thus followed a decade of trying to raise more money, achieve skyrocketing valuations, start bigger cos..it never ends
Achievement of goals won’t deliver lasting happiness.
After hitting many of the goals I set for myself, some beyond the wildest dreams I had 10 years ago, the satisfaction never lasted. It was there in the beginning, but never created a permanent state change.
After hitting many of the goals I set for myself, some beyond the wildest dreams I had 10 years ago, the satisfaction never lasted. It was there in the beginning, but never created a permanent state change.
You can be anxious no matter what your situation is.
I thought my anxiety and fear was situational, but it turns out I’d just map the same level of fears on to whatever difficult experiences I was going through at any given time.
I thought my anxiety and fear was situational, but it turns out I’d just map the same level of fears on to whatever difficult experiences I was going through at any given time.
There is no antidote to your fears.
I tried to escape from my fear lots of ways (alcohol, travel, tv). None of those methods delivered anything other than temporary distraction. I learned instead that meditation is key to sitting with your fear and accepting it.
I tried to escape from my fear lots of ways (alcohol, travel, tv). None of those methods delivered anything other than temporary distraction. I learned instead that meditation is key to sitting with your fear and accepting it.
I don’t need to attract people to me to connect.
All my life I longed to connect meaningfully to others, but felt I didn’t know how. Instead I tried to be successful to attract other people to me. But that’s not necessary: I‘ve learned to start with vulnerability and curiosity
All my life I longed to connect meaningfully to others, but felt I didn’t know how. Instead I tried to be successful to attract other people to me. But that’s not necessary: I‘ve learned to start with vulnerability and curiosity
Lasting happiness comes from connection to other people, gratitude, and the release of self-tortured striving.
Nothing else.
Nothing else.
Congrats on making it through the 2010s. I’m curious, excited and open for what comes in the 2020s.
