Sahil Bloom
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652 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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And for me, what that meant and how that manifested was this desire for achievement, like things.
It was, how do I get enough pats on the back that one day I wake up and feel good about myself?
that I feel like I'm enough.
As a society, the one clear way that you can go out and get those paths on the back is through financial success, through achievement.
I go take the job out of college, that's the job that sounds good on LinkedIn, sounds good on the resume.
I go take the job in finance, I'm working in private equity.
I basically convinced myself for this seven-year window to start my career that my happiness and success and fulfillment as a person was just on the other side of
some bonus or some promotion or some title or something.
And for me on that journey, while I was winning in that one very specific battle, I started to see myself losing the much bigger picture of war.
I was falling apart in a lot of other areas of my life.
I mean, I was living 3,000 miles away from my parents, never seeing them.
My wife and I were in the middle of this struggle with infertility.
It was like creating strain in our life.
I was 50 pounds heavier than you see me today.
I was drinking seven nights a week.
All these other areas of my life were falling apart, while on the surface, you would have seen me and said, this guy's winning the game.
I'm doing the things you're supposed to want to do.
And that whole journey really came to a turning point in May of 2021.
I went out for a drink with this old friend, and we sat down, and he asked how I was doing.
And I told him,
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