Sahil Bloom

feeling of creeping normality.

It's okay in the days.

And then when you stack the negative compounding over time, it's not okay in the years.

And I just think that my worst mistake in life was allowing that to happen over a period of six or seven years.

To where I didn't pull out enough to see the bigger picture that my course had gotten way off base.

Yeah, there's a rule around that in aviation.

It's like the one in 60 rule.

For every one degree error in heading, you'll miss your target by a mile for every 60 miles flown.

So like the small variation leads to a huge miss when you amplify it across time.

Look, that to me was really a byproduct of just assuming the default version of what it meant to live a good life.

and assuming that my insecurity could be solved by some external thing, that like a gold medal, if you will, was going to make me feel better about who I was.

There's this quote from the movie Cool Runnings.

It's like a kind of funny, silly Disney movie.

Jamaican bobsled team goes to the Olympics, and John Candy's the coach, and he's speaking to one of the athletes, and he says, a gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without it,

you're never going to be enough with it.

2014 through 2021.

It was my first job out of school.

So from there through when I had to make the big change.

I got married a few years into that in 2016.

Was it your wife who saved you?