Sam Parr

Well, I did do that exercise in my brain and there's another exercise that Bezos is famous for, what he calls the regret minimization framework, where he said, what would my 80 year old self advise me to do in this situation?

Which is another way to get at what I was doing and to get at this,

This notion of, you know, you only have one life.

Like, are you really thinking about this decision with a reflection of the whole life?

And so your 80-year-old self is probably more risk-seeking than you are in that moment because he's trying to minimize that regret.

What was the exercise you did then?

How old were you?

The thing I did is what I already said.

I asked myself, do I still want to be doing this 30 years from now?

And I did it once when I was an engineer.

So I was 23.

23, 24.

But was that voice loud?

I think it was loud.

I had no inhibitions whatsoever about walking away.

Like, it didn't bother me.

And I may have benefited in the back of my brain from the fact that my father went across the country.

He took a flyer on a job.

He got recruited from...

Virginia to Houston to be one of the first employees at NASA.