Ara Mahdessian
speaker
508 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 16 Mar
Ara Mahdessian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They can go ski all day.
They can go walk around the park all day.
They can sit in their yard and daydream all day.
They can spend time with their families.
And look, maybe there is a...
A world where people can do that all day and everyone's happy and it doesn't result in all kinds of problems.
What is that quote about the biggest devil is idle hands or something like that?
Or we could have social problems in that situation.
Um, because for me, a lot of my fulfillment comes from just the notion of working hard.
It, of course, like the outcome being successful is also great.
That's the source of value, but just the fundamental values of hard work.
bring me a lot of fulfillment.
And the curiosity of going and figuring something out and making something that seemed impossible possible, that brings me a lot of fulfillment.
Resilience of facing obstacles in business where it beats me over the head day after day, but then I finally figured out that brings me fulfillment.
If these things are lost, I don't necessarily know where fulfillment is going to come from.
That's part of the reason I'm a little bit concerned for my kids because...
Yeah, they're going to spend the next 10 years going through school and after that, building a profession.
And what if we have a radical abundance 20 years from now?
And then what?
I don't know.
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