Mark Manson

And it's funny because I...

you you mentioned the exit so i had a friend in new york who uh was uh co-founder of a very large unicorn startup and had exited for nine figures and um also had not been working had been kind of lost for a year or two and it's funny because i i a few months later i i ran into him and he was like so how are you doing

And I said, oh, things are good.

You know, things, you know, it's pretty crazy what's going on with the book and everything.

And he's like, yeah, but how are you doing?

And I'm like, well, you know, I'm like getting by.

And he just looked at me and he's like, it's rough, isn't it?

And I was like, you know?

And he's like, dude, I exited two years ago.

I still like, I don't know what to do when I get up in the morning.

Wow.

You know, it's, I think when you realize when like,

When you're young, money motivates everything.

Success motivates everything.

Status motivates everything.

And then once you achieve those things, for the first time in your life, you have to ask yourself what's worth pursuing simply for the sake of pursuing it.

And that's actually a very hard question to answer.

I think it's what it sounds like happened in your case.

and this happens to a lot of us, is at a certain point, you look back on all of your failures and failed relationships and realize they only had one thing in common, right?

Yeah, yeah.