Tom Bilyeu

The biggest vulnerability, of course, is when I'm old.

If I eject out of the work scene, I'm not contributing that way anymore.

more and I don't have kids and I can feel the end of my life coming, I think the distress will be that there's nothing of me that will continue on into the future.

Okay, here's where I will remind everybody that nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

So I have to have a frame of reference that's going to do its best to inoculate me from that.

There's no way to avoid all pain of all kinds.

But you don't want some sort of crippling regret.

I'm pretty good at teleporting myself psychologically into a different state, a different frame of reference, better way to say it.

Like what will...

I feel like when I'm in that phase of my life, and there's no doubt, I will wish that I had had kids.

And so when I put myself in that position though, I will remind myself, yes, but during the years that you would have needed to actually raise those children, there were other things that you wanted.

And so that lets me off the hook in terms of like beating myself up with regrets and things like that, because I love my life.

So yeah, but anyway, people have to be deeply self-reflexive, reflective, and they have to make sure that they understand what thoughts are going to haunt them and how to deal with them anyway.

I don't know that it would be interesting more than that, but I've thought endlessly about this and certainly do recognize, like my advice to other people is,

Be very thoughtful before you don't have kids.

It's possible, you can do it well, but it is a higher risk strategy.

If people actually wanna be worried about me, the thing you should really worry about, because this is the one that scares me, is I have very few friends.

I'm very isolationist by temperament,

And so I'm the guy that can see his friend once or twice a year and just feel full to the brim.

But if my wife dies, I have no kids, and then also have no friends, I mean, listen, I think about AI, I'll probably be fine.