Stephen Bartlett

Can I throw something out that I think might, like, so this blew my mind. So I was in around that same period of time, because I talked to everybody I could to try and get context on this. And so I called a friend of mine up, or not friend, I would say acquaintance that I got connected with, who'd sold his company for hundreds of millions of dollars. Really bright guy.

Can I throw something out that I think might, like, so this blew my mind. So I was in around that same period of time, because I talked to everybody I could to try and get context on this. And so I called a friend of mine up, or not friend, I would say acquaintance that I got connected with, who'd sold his company for hundreds of millions of dollars. Really bright guy.

And one of the questions I asked him, I said, so how do you drive meaning from your life? And he said an answer that really, really shook me, which doesn't happen that much given my world view. He said, why do you think that life needs to be meaningful? And it was just this really interesting question, which is basically that I had an unspoken demand of the universe. Life should be meaningful.

And one of the questions I asked him, I said, so how do you drive meaning from your life? And he said an answer that really, really shook me, which doesn't happen that much given my world view. He said, why do you think that life needs to be meaningful? And it was just this really interesting question, which is basically that I had an unspoken demand of the universe. Life should be meaningful.

And one of the questions I asked him, I said, so how do you drive meaning from your life? And he said an answer that really, really shook me, which doesn't happen that much given my world view. He said, why do you think that life needs to be meaningful? And it was just this really interesting question, which is basically that I had an unspoken demand of the universe. Life should be meaningful.

I should be happy. And so it's the shoulds that we don't even know that we think and say that are the ones that change us the most, like hardcore.

I should be happy. And so it's the shoulds that we don't even know that we think and say that are the ones that change us the most, like hardcore.

I should be happy. And so it's the shoulds that we don't even know that we think and say that are the ones that change us the most, like hardcore.

And so my favorite quote of all time, which is probably at the front of a few of the books that I have and will probably be the one that will be on my tombstone, is a permutation of an Orson Scott card quote, which is, we question all of our beliefs except for those that we truly believe and those we never think to question.

And so my favorite quote of all time, which is probably at the front of a few of the books that I have and will probably be the one that will be on my tombstone, is a permutation of an Orson Scott card quote, which is, we question all of our beliefs except for those that we truly believe and those we never think to question.

And so my favorite quote of all time, which is probably at the front of a few of the books that I have and will probably be the one that will be on my tombstone, is a permutation of an Orson Scott card quote, which is, we question all of our beliefs except for those that we truly believe and those we never think to question.

And so I would say that a lot of my entrepreneurial career, even just human journey has been, what are the beliefs that I so, so inherently believe that I don't even see them? I don't even think about the should. And so when he said that to me, I was like, whoa, I have had this inherent demand of the universe that my life be meaningful.

And so I would say that a lot of my entrepreneurial career, even just human journey has been, what are the beliefs that I so, so inherently believe that I don't even see them? I don't even think about the should. And so when he said that to me, I was like, whoa, I have had this inherent demand of the universe that my life be meaningful.

And so I would say that a lot of my entrepreneurial career, even just human journey has been, what are the beliefs that I so, so inherently believe that I don't even see them? I don't even think about the should. And so when he said that to me, I was like, whoa, I have had this inherent demand of the universe that my life be meaningful.

And now people would hear this and be like, they have their shoulds and they're going to say, well, it should be meaningful. And I'm like, why? According to what? And if we look at history, history pretty much sweeps everyone under the bed, like within a hundred years. And within a thousand years, basically everyone and the people that we remember, we remember some of their works. And we go...

And now people would hear this and be like, they have their shoulds and they're going to say, well, it should be meaningful. And I'm like, why? According to what? And if we look at history, history pretty much sweeps everyone under the bed, like within a hundred years. And within a thousand years, basically everyone and the people that we remember, we remember some of their works. And we go...

And now people would hear this and be like, they have their shoulds and they're going to say, well, it should be meaningful. And I'm like, why? According to what? And if we look at history, history pretty much sweeps everyone under the bed, like within a hundred years. And within a thousand years, basically everyone and the people that we remember, we remember some of their works. And we go...

100,000 years in the future or 10,000 years in the future, probably unlikely that we will be remembered in general. And that is solving for the idea that we need to be remembered. Again, we have to. Why? And so my solving has been for degrees of freedom and responsibility. So what are the things that I can control?

100,000 years in the future or 10,000 years in the future, probably unlikely that we will be remembered in general. And that is solving for the idea that we need to be remembered. Again, we have to. Why? And so my solving has been for degrees of freedom and responsibility. So what are the things that I can control?

100,000 years in the future or 10,000 years in the future, probably unlikely that we will be remembered in general. And that is solving for the idea that we need to be remembered. Again, we have to. Why? And so my solving has been for degrees of freedom and responsibility. So what are the things that I can control?