Nikesh Arora
speaker
2,918 appearances
12 recordings
8 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6 Aug
Nikesh Arora’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 12 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 5.
Appearances
This is where I ended up.
It's better than your therapist.
It just keeps you centered, saying, okay, I tried my best.
I gave it everything I had, but perhaps this is what God intended for me.
Do you find that hard to believe?
See, this is free.
You're getting free.
I'm not sure I fully embrace all of that, but that was where I started.
So if you start from that perspective, over time, you climb up Maslow's hierarchy.
It was about food and shelter, and that became about ambition, and it becomes about actualization, conceptually, in Maslow's hierarchy.
And you get to a certain amount of money, then you decide there are some things I don't have to do anymore.
I don't have to be a security guard.
I don't have to flip burgers.
But that very quickly goes up further.
I don't have to tolerate certain things that I tolerate in my life because I don't need it in my life because I don't have to adapt to the circumstance because I can walk away.
The willingness to walk away makes you softer.
No, actually it's the other way around.
The willingness to walk away makes sure you optimize the outcome.
When you negotiate, if you're fully vested in the outcome, you fold at some point in time, saying, well, I can't let Harry Stebbings walk away because Harry walks away, I have no deal.
But if I say, you know what, Harry, it's going to be these terms or no terms.
Showing 1321–1340 of 2,918 · page 67 of 146
← Previous
Next →