It's much better to put your own money in. So I was making my decisions for me. I wasn't having to worry about investors and what they might think. And if there's a failure, it's my failure. It's all down to me.
No egos, no politics. Everybody has to pull for the larger boat. You can't be in your own rowboat.
Quite often when I'm talking to people, and they're trying to get life advice, they're not playing their game. They're playing someone else's game. So much is about choosing the game for you. When you do that, you start becoming superhuman in your ability to get things done.
You never sort of want to go over into the arrogant zone because that's really a dangerous place to be.
People don't pursue original paths usually because they're fearful of the unknown... when you really drill people on why not, they'll give reasons that add up to, 'I'm afraid.'
Some of the decisions you're making right now are going to ripple through the generations.
The whole point of this is to help other people. That's it. That's the entire point of this existence.
You always want to be finding waste and eliminating it. You always want to find inefficiencies. Inefficiencies are always there.
Junk food got to where it was because it's been optimized for us to want the most of it possible. Whether or not it's good for us, it's obviously horrible for us. It's the same thing with most content, and everyone knows this in their gut.
That moment of magic when something good does happen is the thing I'm addicted to. That feeling of, it wasn't good, it's not good. Oh my God, it's good.
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