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Bill Gurley

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Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

Those are all kind of things that could restrict this movement.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

If you allow me to give you a little history of how or why I would say I spent six years turning the โ€“

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

the original presentation into a book.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

And I had this thing I really wanted to achieve, which was to embed as much stories and narrative into it as possible.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

And I was listening, I know you've had Morgan Housel on.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

He's the absolute GOAT.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

And he was on a podcast called Why We Write, talking about the power of narrative.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

And so the book is divided.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

It's structured unlike most books.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

It's divided into two parts, but they interleave.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

And so every other chapter is a Atlantic-size article about someone that started on the bottom rung with intention and made it to the top.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

And the reason I wanted to include those is precisely for the reason Morgan talks about, which is I think these things stick in your brain more.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

Like a lot of the books in the category that have done extremely well in career read like a textbook.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

Do A, then do B, then do C. But they don't have this kind of spirituality to them that I think โ€“

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

can infect the brain a little bit more.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

Yeah, so we have eight, nine, or 10, I should know the exact number, but I can't recall right now, of these profiles.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

And I alternate them with the principles.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

And

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

I always thought about it like candy and vegetables, you know, or something.

Modern Wisdom
#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

But you get some of both.