Shaan Puri
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Podcast Appearances
One of my best friends, he now lives in Portugal and he's building, he just bought 50 acres of land on the coast of Portugal and he's building a meditation center.
That's what he's doing.
Yeah, so he bought 50 acres of land and check this out.
He has like a mobile home that he mostly lives in.
And this little, like he, I think he has a house that he, now I think they've rented a house nearby, but for a little while they were living in like a tiny home, him and his kid and his wife.
And him and his wife are both tycoons.
They're both incredibly successful people and they live very, very modest lives and they're dedicating everything right now to building a retreat so people can like,
Get into, I don't know, whatever you do when you meditate.
Self-awareness, calmness, whatever those folks are.
Have you ever read the, I think it's called the War, is it War on Art by Steven Pressfield?
War of Art.
War Art, sorry.
And he talks about this idea of the difference between like an amateur and a professional.
And like an amateur maybe says that they have writer's block or that their creativity just hasn't come to them.
Whereas a professional, they sit down at the same day and they get to work and they just write regardless of how they feel.
You know, their emotion that day doesn't impact how they feel.
They're a professional.
You go to work.
The things that I've noticed that have held a lot of people back is when they think about making money, or in Ben's case, or sorry, Sam's case, of what to do next, I think that they don't think of themselves as a company builder.
I think that when you're thinking about what to do next, you have to think, how do I get enough traction to hire people