Bill Gurley

And then she goes, but you'd have to work really hard.

And I said, yes, yes.

Yeah, that's part of it.

Yes, you would.

Yes.

Well, a couple of different things.

And we have a whole chapter dedicated to this topic.

I literally went and studied all the other advice all the greats had given and tried to make it a laundry list so that you could try every one of these things.

And there's so many different fun little exercises you can do.

Dave Evans at Stanford who did Designing Your Life, he talks about create like three to five different profiles and spend a couple hours like writing out

each one of them and kind of living with it in your brain and then do it the other and then you can battle card them which is an interesting way to really test which one you're most excited about your intuition when you do that will typically pick up on one of those um there's a great story in the book there's a gentleman from here in austin that spent the first part of his career in seismology and then he became a mortgage broker and he's watching a pbs show one night and

And they have this idea where you take a sheet of paper, you draw a line down it, you put what you love to do on one side and what you're good at on the other, and try and find the middle ground.

That gentleman's name is Burt Beveridge, and that exercise led to him starting a spirit company called Tito's Vodka.

Oh, wow.

the most successful spirit business in America right now.

Yeah, and the idea to do that came from that exercise.

So we have a ton of those exercises here.

The other thing that Angela Duckworth talks about a lot is just don't be afraid to move around.

And this happened twice in my career.

I was in a job.