Bill Burnett

So I became a lawyer and I ended up here and I'm pretty successful, but I really don't like it.

It's so interesting.

The people I meet who are,

maybe in the most pain in some ways, are the folks who are pretty successful.

But they sort of drifted into something without really thinking about it, about how it was a good fit.

And it was something that was some little system of reward and punishment, you know?

but you never really made the decision to do it.

You know what I mean?

You just sort of drifted.

So that's what we're, we don't want you to end up there.

We want you to end up in a design that fits for you and that you have the possibility of being available to something that's even cooler than the thing you were looking for.

Yeah, I mean, absolutely.

But the alternative is I stay in something.

I was talking to a woman who was very successful at school, went to the best law school, got into the biggest law firm in New York, first woman partner, general manager, all this.

And I said, how's it going?

She said, well, it steals a little piece of my soul every time I go into the office.

And I went, well, that's not so good.

I think even if you're in that situation, so one of our mindsets is, you know, design starts in reality, radical acceptance.

Where am I right now and how do I feel about it?

And the good news is if you are in a situation where you have some assets, you have some money, you have some assets, but you're not happy, I'm not suggesting, you know, you throw all that away and suddenly become a dive instructor in Bali or something.