How to find your thing

“And the idea of blisters is like, on my hand right now. I've I have these blisters because I've been training for this MRF, and I've been doing pull ups all the time. So my hands on both sizes have all these blisters. And if you think about the idea of blisters, it's a it's it's a receipt. It's an evidence of a price paid. A price paid over and over and over again that you really couldn't force yourself to do just through willpower, but you had to have been actually, like, pulled to doing it.”

“And in it, he has this one phrase that I remember, which is, let enthusiasm be not just the motor, but the rudder of your boat. So, basically, enthusiasm is obviously gonna provide you some fuel, some, like, some, your motor. It's gonna get you to go. But let it also be the thing that guides you, like a rudder that guides your direction.”

“What he talks about is, like, Paul Graham basically says, let the let the enthusiasm be the engine and the rudder. It'll guide you where you need to go. It'll take you to the frontier. And at the frontier, you will notice some gaps. So when you were at the frontier, Sam, did you not notice a gap? And the gap that you told me about has turned to one of our most profitable investments.”

“What I realized was like, dude, you spend all of your like, when you when you decide to start a company, you're gonna try to, like inherently, you're saying, I'm gonna make this thing successful. To make it successful, it's gotta grow. And to make it grow, you're gonna spend most of your time on that really hard problem of making it grow. Part of making it grow is the product, but that's only a small part. Minority percentage, not more than 50%. I would say more closer to 15% than 50.”

“The key to life, if I was telling that that kid who walked up to us at the restaurant is assume right now you don't know what it is, but know what you're looking for. You're looking for the blisters that you enjoy and that will come from doing this loop thousands of times. And you don't have to know upfront you would like to do it thousands of times. Just see, are you interested in doing it once, twice? Do you have an enthusiasm towards doing this?”

“I would say mastery comes from an enduring enthusiasm. Yesterday, I I had a piano lesson in the morning. And then in the evening before bed, I'm tired. I'm walking to bed, and I pass the room that has the piano. I'm like, let me get in here and play the sea shanty. Like, I'm a pirate on the pirate like, on a boat or something like that. And I'm playing this song, and I'm I've I've basically half half eyes open, but it's but I got a little bit better. Right? I've got one step closer to mastery.”

“But the number one regret by a huge margin was I wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. That was the number one regret by a huge margin when she, like, tallied this this up. And then, basically, this idea is that they, like, would spend too long, and they didn't realize until the end of their life that they were living a life that other people that they thought other people would should want them to live, not versus what they really wanted to live.”

“The first is name the blisters. So it's really easy when you go into something to just only focus on the outcome. It's like, oh, yeah. I'm gonna go I'm gonna start working out because I really wanna be in shape. I really wanna be fit. I wanna be I wanna have, you know, a six pack. Okay. Cool. I wanna be jacked. Name the blisters. The blisters is I'm gonna be waking up at this time. I'm gonna be going to gym on days I don't even feel like it.”