Pieter Levels
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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So you lean more on other people's services, but you spend money on that as well. So that's good.
Yeah.
Man, I recommend if you're 18, you get out of high school, do this. Go travel. and build some internet stuff, whatever. Bring your laptop and it's an amazing experience. Five years ago, I was still going to university, but now I'm thinking like, no, maybe skip university. Just go first, like travel around a little bit, figure some stuff out. You can go back to university when you're 25.
You can like, okay, now I learned, I've been successful in business. You have money at least. Now you can choose what you really want to study, you know? Because people at 18, they go study what is probably good for the job market, right? So it probably makes more sense, like, if you want that, go travel, build some businesses, and go back to university if you want.
Oh, like the subcultures.
No, but man, if you're smart about it, you can stay safe. And I met so many weirdos from traveling. You meet, that's how travel works. If you really let loose, you meet the craziest people. And it's the most interesting people. And it's just, I cannot recommend it enough.
But I was very strange outcast as well. And I'm more adaptable to normie now. You learned it. Yeah. After 30s, you know, you're like, yeah.
Yeah. Man, I feel so good. You start as an outcast, but the more you work on yourself, the less like shit you have. You kind of start becoming more normie because you become more chill with yourself and more happy. And it kind of makes you uninteresting, right? Yes.
Like the most, the crazy people are always the most interesting. If you've solved your internal struggles and your therapy and stuff, and you kind of become kind of, you know, it's not so interesting anymore, maybe.
So the backpack, MacBook, toothbrush, some clothes, underwear, socks. You don't need a lot of clothes in Asia because it's hot. So you just wear swim pants, swim shorts. You walk around, flip-flops. So very basic. T-shirt. And I would go to the laundromat and wash my stuff. And I think it was like 50 things or something. Yeah.
It gives me happiness for like two weeks. I'm very quickly adapting to like a baseline, hedonistic adaptation, very fast. But man, if you look at the studies, most people like, Like get a new car, six months, you know, get a new house, six months. You just feel the same. She's like, wow, should I buy all this stuff? Studying hedonistic adaptation made me think a lot about minimalism.
Yeah.
Yeah, like people around you, like people you love, nice food, nice experiences, meaningful work, those things, exercise, you know, those things make you happy, I think, make me happy for sure.
Yeah, so when I wrote that, I was getting so many DMs, as you probably have a million times more. And people were getting angry that I wasn't responding. And I was like, okay, I'll just close down these DMs completely. Then people got angry that I closed my DMs down, that I'm not like...
man of the people you know it's like you've changed man yeah you've changed you guys you know like this and i'm like i'll explain why i just don't have the time in a day to you know answer every question and also people send you like crazy shit man like stalkers and like people write like their whole life story for you and then ask you advice like man i have no idea i'm not a therapist i don't know i know this stuff
Yeah. I have this problem that I want to try to help people and also like, oh, let's make startups and whatever. And I've learned over the years that generally for me, and it sounds maybe bad, right? But like I helped my friend Andre, for example, he came up to me in a coworker space. That's how I met him. He said, I want to learn to code. I want to do startups. How do I do it?
I said, okay, let's go. Install NGINX. Let's start coding. And he has this self energy that he actually... he doesn't need to be pushed. He just goes and he just goes and he asks questions and he doesn't ask too many questions. He just goes and learns it. And now he has a company and makes a lot of money, has his own startups.
So, and the people that I had to kind of like, that asked me for help, but then I gave help and then they started debating it, you know? Do you have that? Like people ask you advice and they go against you, say, no, you're wrong. Because I'm like, okay, bro, I don't want to debate. You asked me for advice, right? And the people who need this push generally It doesn't happen.
You need to have this energy for yourself.
Yeah, so I think it's procrastination. I think sending messages to people is a lot of procrastination. Like, Lex, how do you become a successful podcaster? Yeah. Bro, just, you know, start. Like, just go. Yeah. And, uh. Just go. I would never ask you how to be a successful podcaster. Like I would just start it and then I would copy your methods, you know?
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