Daniel Priestley

and you find your group of people that you want to be up to something with and you natter and you solve and you get curious and you run ideas past each other and you voice note at 2 o'clock in the morning, you know, that's where the juice is.

That's where the joy is.

There's a chapter in there that says know when enough is enough.

And it says that a huge part of the times that we're in is, you know, we live in a time of endless scrolling.

There's no cue that says you've been scrolling long enough, you know, go to bed.

And it's the same with business, that we think bigger would be better.

Having a bigger business, another, you know, another product, another thing, another million would make you happier.

And the truth is it's normally not the case.

You can either go really big with one thing and just be really, really focused or you can have a challenge across a portfolio of interests.

One thing that is happening to your generation, if I can be so bold because I'm just 15 years older or whatever, is that you've taken all the energy that normally went into kids and you're putting it into business.

And the normal natural thing that is meant to happen around this age is that you're meant to struggle with a business or struggle with a way of providing and also struggle with raising kids and all that sort of stuff.

So there's this reservoir of creative energy that is meant to be divided amongst a few projects.

And I'm seeing a lot of people that that misplaced maternalism or paternalism goes into just one thing and then we're expecting to get the joy and the fulfilment that would normally come back from family and we wonder why that's missing.

You know, it's like, oh, I'm pouring myself into the creation of these companies and their proxies for kids and it's like, why don't I feel this warmth back?

Because your biology is not wired to receive warmth back from something other than a kid.

So this is happening because we're not having kids.

So one of the things that – well, one of the things I encourage everyone to do is have kids because it's the best thing ever and to have a portfolio of interests that you don't have to struggle to get to a billion.

You could say, you know what, the business bucket's full at $3 million and I'm really, really happy with a revenue of $3 million and a team of 10.

And now I want to have a portfolio of interests that includes health and fitness or travel or teaching at a local, you know, youth group, you know, or I want to play a bigger role in my church.

Like there's all these other things that you say, okay, these are the portfolio of interests that are more human.