Dave Evans

So I said, no, I'm not going to help stop him.

And I'm not going to call him because you said call him.

But if he wants to call me, we can chat.

And by the way, I'll probably tell him he's doing the right thing.

So watch what you wish for.

So I'm on the phone on a Zoom call talking to this 26-year-old young man who is a Stanford grad in economics with a master's in computer science because everybody should know digital stuff.

And he drops right into investment banking and he's killing it.

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.