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Jonathan Courtney

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

So are you telling the public just to not add you to close friends?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

So are you telling the public just to not add you to close friends?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

I think that's also interesting because what you could do is if someone adds you to the close friends thing and then you see that they're doing something like a wedding or a family party and you haven't been invited, you could get really irritated with them. Like, oh, thanks for the invite. I thought I was a close friend.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

I think that's also interesting because what you could do is if someone adds you to the close friends thing and then you see that they're doing something like a wedding or a family party and you haven't been invited, you could get really irritated with them. Like, oh, thanks for the invite. I thought I was a close friend.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

I think that's also interesting because what you could do is if someone adds you to the close friends thing and then you see that they're doing something like a wedding or a family party and you haven't been invited, you could get really irritated with them. Like, oh, thanks for the invite. I thought I was a close friend.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

Yeah, I thought I was a very close friend and I didn't get put on your will, interestingly. So yeah, okay, fair enough. That's a good one. Okay, let me, can I choose one more just to end on one that I like? Okay, avoid angry people. They suck the good energy out of the room. It sounds like really obvious.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

Yeah, I thought I was a very close friend and I didn't get put on your will, interestingly. So yeah, okay, fair enough. That's a good one. Okay, let me, can I choose one more just to end on one that I like? Okay, avoid angry people. They suck the good energy out of the room. It sounds like really obvious.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

Yeah, I thought I was a very close friend and I didn't get put on your will, interestingly. So yeah, okay, fair enough. That's a good one. Okay, let me, can I choose one more just to end on one that I like? Okay, avoid angry people. They suck the good energy out of the room. It sounds like really obvious.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

And I would say not just angry, or maybe you, I don't know if you agree with this, but I would say you also generally want to avoid people who are super cynical, super pissed about everything. It's like you meet someone and they're like, oh, did you hear about this stupid thing? This stupid politician did this country's fucked up. And you're like, oh man, I was having a good day.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

And I would say not just angry, or maybe you, I don't know if you agree with this, but I would say you also generally want to avoid people who are super cynical, super pissed about everything. It's like you meet someone and they're like, oh, did you hear about this stupid thing? This stupid politician did this country's fucked up. And you're like, oh man, I was having a good day.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

And I would say not just angry, or maybe you, I don't know if you agree with this, but I would say you also generally want to avoid people who are super cynical, super pissed about everything. It's like you meet someone and they're like, oh, did you hear about this stupid thing? This stupid politician did this country's fucked up. And you're like, oh man, I was having a good day.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

And now I have to listen to this stuff.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

And now I have to listen to this stuff.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

And now I have to listen to this stuff.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

They're also the people that if you come to them, let me see if I can get this down to the perfect crystallization, if this is exactly what it is for you. You're really excited about something. You're really excited about a new thing. Let's say you got this and you're super excited and you show it to your friend and they're like, I heard teenage engineering are actually a shit company.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

They're also the people that if you come to them, let me see if I can get this down to the perfect crystallization, if this is exactly what it is for you. You're really excited about something. You're really excited about a new thing. Let's say you got this and you're super excited and you show it to your friend and they're like, I heard teenage engineering are actually a shit company.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

They're also the people that if you come to them, let me see if I can get this down to the perfect crystallization, if this is exactly what it is for you. You're really excited about something. You're really excited about a new thing. Let's say you got this and you're super excited and you show it to your friend and they're like, I heard teenage engineering are actually a shit company.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

That's like a waste of money. That's crap. No matter what you do, they see that you're excited and they're like, let me just take the pin out of that. Let me bring you down a few pegs just to make sure you're not too excited and too happy about stuff.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

That's like a waste of money. That's crap. No matter what you do, they see that you're excited and they're like, let me just take the pin out of that. Let me bring you down a few pegs just to make sure you're not too excited and too happy about stuff.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

That's like a waste of money. That's crap. No matter what you do, they see that you're excited and they're like, let me just take the pin out of that. Let me bring you down a few pegs just to make sure you're not too excited and too happy about stuff.