Dave Evans
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He's absolutely killing it.
And he's having a great time killing it until suddenly he wakes up one day and he's bored to tears.
And so I think I'm going to quit and, you know, ruin my career and travel for a while and go try to find myself.
You know, because what he noticed was, right, I think what's happening for him is his neocortex is forming at about 27.
He's a little ahead of himself.
And just like, wait a minute.
The motivation I had to do this, which was growing and winning, which is fine.
You're getting A's.
He was getting A's at the bank like he got at Stanford.
Suddenly it doesn't work for me anymore.
He awakened an incoherent person.
And he tried to talk himself into success as its own reward, and he just couldn't do it.
So for him to become coherent, he's going to have to go recalibrate his values and recalibrate his priorities.
So he's in a transition.
That's the right thing to do.
Now, there are other people who keep re-upping that incoherence because they're getting the money or they're fearful of the change or their wife will think they're stupid.
You know, there's lots of reasons people get stuck in an incoherent place.
But it's soul-sucking, so be careful.
Oh.
Well, I've never had balance as a goal.