Arthur Brooks

That's what bad entrepreneurs have in common, right?

Good entrepreneurs, they try this and it's not quite right and they change and they go from this thing to that thing and they sell when it's time and start a new venture.

That's what great entrepreneurs have in common.

If you want to be an entrepreneur in the business of your life, you cannot afford the sunk cost fallacy with your own career or your own relationships or your own interests.

Bad job.

You have to change is what it comes down to.

Now,

There's a very interesting theory about people who need to change the most.

These are called spirals.

This is the spiral career pattern.

There's four career patterns psychologically.

There's linears who just go up, and up, and up, and up, and up, and up in their careers, and they only change when something is better.

There are transitories who just skip around all over the place.

They don't live to work, they work to live.

I'm going to be a barista, then I'm going to drive a moving van, and I fell in love with a girl in San Diego.

There are what's called expert, which is slow and steady.

It's lifestyle.

My dad had the same job for 42 years, for example.

The reason is because it was secure.

and because it was low stress, right?