“Everyone in society can’t do this!” Is not the dunk you think it is If everyone went to the same McDonald’s in NYC at the same time things would f… - Paul Millerd

Generally I’ve seen that finding a satisfying life path is easier if you quit your job before you are “financially independent” whatever that means to you.

Post exit founders often struggle the most because they can’t just turn it “on” again. Their skills is doing a whole years long pursuit. So there is more resistance to running that back. But for the most part they do just end up running it back. The happiest tend to be the ones that don’t do it to run away from the inner feelings that crop up post exit

The problem with making lots of money is that people tend to overindex on using the skill of making money as a way to spend one’s time.

Doing new things not only means less money but being bad at something.

by liking this post, you will start a butterfly effect that will traverse the cosmos and start a chain of events that will snap someone out of hustle-induced self-coercion, kickstarting them on a path to loving themselves without them knowing

rejecting the default path should be a phase

2-3 years max, you almost certainly have to go through this phase, being against your former self

in some ways this is defending you from going back, bootstrapped confidence

but its not a good stance long-term