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Matt Higgins

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Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

What is the opportunity cost of this distraction? And I'm willing am I willing to pay that price? If I'm going to spend a half an hour playing around with Twitter and looking for the next big idea, I know that I could be using it out of one of my companies. And a lot of times, as long as it's about a relief valve, an escape hatch, we all need one, then I'm okay with it.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

But I would argue, everyone, the way to strike a right balance about focus is to constantly ask, what's the opportunity cost of the distraction? And I'm willing to pay it. As long as you've asked a question and you're willing to pay it, then it's okay. What makes Matt Higgins happy? Um, it's also cliche. I've number one, I married my best friend, which is great.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

But I would argue, everyone, the way to strike a right balance about focus is to constantly ask, what's the opportunity cost of the distraction? And I'm willing to pay it. As long as you've asked a question and you're willing to pay it, then it's okay. What makes Matt Higgins happy? Um, it's also cliche. I've number one, I married my best friend, which is great.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

But I would argue, everyone, the way to strike a right balance about focus is to constantly ask, what's the opportunity cost of the distraction? And I'm willing to pay it. As long as you've asked a question and you're willing to pay it, then it's okay. What makes Matt Higgins happy? Um, it's also cliche. I've number one, I married my best friend, which is great.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

I hang out with like, you know, truly my best friend. And so it makes days fun. I love being around my kids as long as I get that right. I'm okay. And I love travel. I like being uncomfortable. I like being deposited in a place where I can't read the signs and I like seeing the world upside down and I like being stimulated.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

I hang out with like, you know, truly my best friend. And so it makes days fun. I love being around my kids as long as I get that right. I'm okay. And I love travel. I like being uncomfortable. I like being deposited in a place where I can't read the signs and I like seeing the world upside down and I like being stimulated.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

I hang out with like, you know, truly my best friend. And so it makes days fun. I love being around my kids as long as I get that right. I'm okay. And I love travel. I like being uncomfortable. I like being deposited in a place where I can't read the signs and I like seeing the world upside down and I like being stimulated.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

So if I could absent family, I would be on a plane and, and just be in airports all the time. And just like looking at that board saying, where am I going next? You know, I love to be in strange places.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

So if I could absent family, I would be on a plane and, and just be in airports all the time. And just like looking at that board saying, where am I going next? You know, I love to be in strange places.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

So if I could absent family, I would be on a plane and, and just be in airports all the time. And just like looking at that board saying, where am I going next? You know, I love to be in strange places.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

I want to give two answers because one I'm sitting with, I just, God forbid, turned 50 recently. And it does prompt a little bit of an existential crisis. So I'll give you the benefit of that. I didn't buy a Ferrari, but I've been probing my decision making. Yeah. The number one piece of advice I would give is that nobody cares.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

I want to give two answers because one I'm sitting with, I just, God forbid, turned 50 recently. And it does prompt a little bit of an existential crisis. So I'll give you the benefit of that. I didn't buy a Ferrari, but I've been probing my decision making. Yeah. The number one piece of advice I would give is that nobody cares.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

I want to give two answers because one I'm sitting with, I just, God forbid, turned 50 recently. And it does prompt a little bit of an existential crisis. So I'll give you the benefit of that. I didn't buy a Ferrari, but I've been probing my decision making. Yeah. The number one piece of advice I would give is that nobody cares.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

And like you and I talked about it off camera, I think, but we spend so much time self-censoring our own ambition in anticipation of how that ambition will be received by a boss or a spouse or the voices in our head. And we don't realize that nobody cares. And like, as you get older, you realize like, oh, winners don't care because they're so focused on what they're doing.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

And like you and I talked about it off camera, I think, but we spend so much time self-censoring our own ambition in anticipation of how that ambition will be received by a boss or a spouse or the voices in our head. And we don't realize that nobody cares. And like, as you get older, you realize like, oh, winners don't care because they're so focused on what they're doing.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

And like you and I talked about it off camera, I think, but we spend so much time self-censoring our own ambition in anticipation of how that ambition will be received by a boss or a spouse or the voices in our head. And we don't realize that nobody cares. And like, as you get older, you realize like, oh, winners don't care because they're so focused on what they're doing.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

And the only ones that don't care are not deserving of your time. They're deserving of your empathy, right? Of like, oh, if you really care about me, that's so tragic because you're just, you know, wasting. So number one would have been nobody cared. Number two. would be for those who have born up born with scarcity and who have, have some degree of dysfunction or desperation.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

And the only ones that don't care are not deserving of your time. They're deserving of your empathy, right? Of like, oh, if you really care about me, that's so tragic because you're just, you know, wasting. So number one would have been nobody cared. Number two. would be for those who have born up born with scarcity and who have, have some degree of dysfunction or desperation.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

And the only ones that don't care are not deserving of your time. They're deserving of your empathy, right? Of like, oh, if you really care about me, that's so tragic because you're just, you know, wasting. So number one would have been nobody cared. Number two. would be for those who have born up born with scarcity and who have, have some degree of dysfunction or desperation.

Right About Now - Legendary Business Advice
Burn The Boats - Greatness Has No Plan B With Matt Higgins

I do think it does something to your psychology of money, which is everything's about a lotto ticket. There's no way out of your hole. I remember there was no way out of my hole growing up with my mom. So we would, she would spend money on Omaha steaks. Like it'd be so bizarre. We would order these Omaha steaks. And I'm like, why? And the answer was like, tomorrow has no more hope than today.