Eric Jorgenson

I told everybody I was retired and I just kind of like cleared my calendar and did what I wanted and followed my curiosity.

And like, in retrospect, that was outrageously productive and I didn't know it and I didn't intend it.

I didn't trick myself into it.

I just

followed my curiosity and it all worked out.

So I think, you know, like many things, sometimes rewards are best pursued indirectly.

And so like this book is excellent.

If people see excellence in it is not because like somebody told me to make it great.

It's because I cared about it enough to invest a lot in making it great of my own choice and volition.

Like I'm not a perfectionist in making

any other area of my life.

But like, when it comes to putting out a book with my name on it that I think, you know, might be a difference in people's lives.

I'm like, utterly meticulous.

Yeah, his happiness arc is so interesting, right?

So he had achieved all this incredible material success.

He built successful companies.

He'd been an incredible investor.

He was well-known in Silicon Valley.

he sort of looked around and was like i all the things that i thought would make me happy do not i have them and they do not seem to have made me happy so maybe i need to just make a study of happiness and like um somebody said to him if you're so smart why aren't you happy

is like, oh, I can apply my intelligence to this problem and I can break it down.