Episode of My First Million with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.
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Kind: captions Language: en dude I just want to get wins like I don’t need to change culture like I need to change my bank account and my lifestyle like there’s these companies like Tesla and basically a lot of stuff that Elon does which is like this like super sexy stuff I mean I’m not interested in in it but it is quite sexy to say you’re gonna send a you’re gonna go to Mars or you’re creating these cars that are neat and fun and that whenever I think about these companies they’re like the coolest companies where you create a hype video at the end of the year and you see everything they’ve done and you’re like oh my god that’s so sick like when they created like a video of Elon celebrating the one of his rock is taking off house like and so anyway constantly things not that he doesn’t do a video him like looking at his Golf Club software right and it’s pretty boring but it’s still fascinating because like a fun puzzle how do you Shawn about like where are your aspirations like do you say like I want to do something that’s full of excitement or do you find excitement in the boring so I used to be a pretty hardcore about this where I was like dude the only thing worth doing like if I’m gonna spend my time and I used to be really like dismissive of people who were wasting their time doing things that were not sort of the peak of the peak so I was like okay if I’m gonna do why would I do a job when I can own my own business then I was like why would I own a small business when I can own a big business they both kind of take up all my energy my time and it’s like I’m gonna do a big business why would I do a boring thing might as well do an exciting thing and that train of logic made sense to me and I did that so at Monkey inferno it was we are here to try to create the next hit consumer thing we’re like we don’t give a [ __ ] that that’s low odds of success we want to create you know Michael had created Bebo and which was like sort of like almost Facebook he had like come within sort of inches of creating a Facebook but instead ended up in the myspace pile and you know did well financially but he didn’t change culture and so we were like dude we can do this we could change culture and so we tried every you know messaging apps live streaming we tried all these different consumer things and failed like crazy and you know even things that like kind of worked they ultimately were not successful because there was they were so homerun driven they were grand-slam driven so I backed off that and I backed off that maybe because I’m just burnt dude I just want to get wins like I don’t need to change culture like I didn’t need to change my bank account and my lifestyle like so I don’t know to what extent I’m it’s it’s like I can frame it either way am i more mature because I’m like look I don’t have not attracted to the sexiness of it I just want to build you know great things great businesses or am I just fearful and burnt out from failure it’s hard to say for me right but my view it definitely has changed where now I’m like oh that you on path I don’t know that sounds like a lot of effort why don’t I just do this simple thing that’s gonna like work yeah and part of me is like okay I agree and I agree and I am the same and then the other part is like yeah dude but you’re just kind of being like a puss like what were the twelve year old didn’t you like think is awesome and every once in a while you got to listen to that and so I don’t know how I feel [Music]