Sam Parr

We took that to Wharton People Analytics to do the official academic version.

So you make sure you get all the statistical data correct.

And their number came back six out of 10.

So still a really big number.

Crazy.

There's a great book by Daniel Pink called The Power of Regrets.

And he has a somewhat similar survey data of longitudinal through people's lives.

And as you get older...

your regrets of inaction start to really weigh on you and ruminate in your brain.

And a regret of inaction is actively not doing something versus a regret of action is I made a mistake.

And humans are really good at allowing themselves to make a mistake, but the path I never traveled, the door I never opened is heavier in their mind.

And the survey might've been getting at that, like people thinking, wow, what if I had done something differently?

when you left compact and then eventually got into vc which i imagine that would be your calling that you still questioned it after the engineering degree i went to wall street for three years so i you were like in research i was in a cell site research analyst yeah so i had two stops before i made it to to venture and um

In both cases, I had a moment of reflection, and it's more clear to me now than it was then, but where I ask, do I see myself doing this 30 years from now?

And in many businesses, there's a lifer in the room that's done it their whole life.

And that sounds a little judgmental.

I don't mean it to be.

But it gives you a way to reflect on whether that's the place you want to be in because they did it.

And in both cases, after about two or three years, I got to a no, even though I was doing well in those jobs.

But thinking, do I want to still be doing this 30 years from now was clarifying for me.