Are you crazy enough to commit?

Are you crazy enough to commit?

Are you nuts enough to do it?

To leave everything you’ve worked on?

To be a writer?

A podcaster?

A youtuber?

Are you really ok with leaving your cushy venture capital job after becoming a doctor, to be a media personality?

Absolutely.

At the right time, it’ll happen.

I read once that sometimes when Jeff Bezos had to make a decision, he thought about if he would regret it when he would turn 85.

Whether or not that’s true, that’s a good way to look at life.

When you’re older, will you regret taking a chance on yourself?

Doing what you believe in over what everyone else wants you to do?

Do it.

Do it for you.

Take chances.

Take risks.

Especially when you’re young.

Gary Vee talks about this a lot.

Work on something for years when you’re young.

Take as many risks as you can.

Keep your expenses low, get rid of the negativity in your life, and work at something.

Do it for years and you’ll create an amazing life for yourself.

Do things that seem crazy. 

Go move halfway around the world.

Get out of your bubble.

We’re all trapped in our bubble and our algorithms. 

Get outside of what you believe.

Had a convo today and I was explaining how when you’re working on one career, you’re trapped in a box.

However, when you learn about other disciplines, you learn about other boxes.

Then you merge the boxes together in your mind and you see connections between them you never saw before.

Almost like a box fort in your brain.

Building connections you never saw before.

Then it all changes.

Continuous learning shatters what you believe.

It makes you question why do you believe what you believe?

So this person asked me for an example of how my boxes have been shattered.

My answer was ‘happiness is a choice.’

I used to believe happiness was a goal.

It was something you get eventually.

But that’s not true.

We have to decide every day to be happy.

We have to choose to do things in our lives to make us happy.

Happiness has to be internal.

We can learn about what people who are happy do and see the evidence that they’re more likely to go for walks, exercise, meet their friends and love their family.

But that never explains the whole story.

You have to discover what happiness means to you.

No one else can answer that question for you.

Do the self-work.

Understand who you are.

Decide if you want to live a life of no regrets or one where you’re 85 wondering if you had any regrets.

Are you crazy enough to commit?

Watch and see.