Sahil Bloom

Once you've done that, then the whole world is open up to you.

Because now you have networks and money and experience, and you can deploy those into the most interesting, asymmetric, high upside opportunities.

Because now you have networks and money and experience, and you can deploy those into the most interesting, asymmetric, high upside opportunities.

But until you do that trade, you wouldn't know how to work smart.

But until you do that trade, you wouldn't know how to work smart.

So people like, when young people say, oh, I'm going to work smart, not hard, you can't really do that until you work hard.

So people like, when young people say, oh, I'm going to work smart, not hard, you can't really do that until you work hard.

Because you don't have the assets to work smart.

Because you don't have the assets to work smart.

So true.

So true.

So my early career years, I was just working 80 to 100 hours a week.

So my early career years, I was just working 80 to 100 hours a week.

And that was very much the like trading time for all of these other things phase of my life.

And that was very much the like trading time for all of these other things phase of my life.

And it was fantastic for three or four years.

And it was fantastic for three or four years.

And what happened to me was I started to make money.

And what happened to me was I started to make money.

I started to convince myself that my happiness and fulfillment was on the other side of like some arbitrary financial milestone.