Michael Smoak
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
What if it goes away?
Well, that means that you never get to arrive at a place where you arrive.
And yeah, abundance mindset is a wonderful salve to the uncertainty and the fear that I think a lot of us feel.
It's important to have an Indian man in there for diversity.
We're still working between Rabbit Hole, Open Tabs,
side quests, and stuff I love.
Also makes for an interesting person.
Yeah.
An interesting life.
We don't want the thing.
We want the feeling that the thing gives us.
We don't... Having things isn't fun.
Getting things is fun.
Well, don't forget, there's a much more squirrely, pernicious version of this, which is developing yourself with your traits and your skills and maybe your knowledge as well.
Naval has this cool idea where he talks about how
He wasn't that concerned about being smart, but he really wanted to appear smart.
So what he did is he just wrote, memorized tons of stuff.
And that gave him the illusion of being smart to other people.
But it didn't mean he actually understood what he was doing.
And that difference of when I'm able to impress people around a dinner table, when everybody else shuts up and they think I'm the most interesting person in the room then, or a black belt in some martial art,