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1) Charge forth: An excerpt from a doc I wrote someone today. ---------------------

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2) Your energy was infectious. I remember that feeling, back from when I got into crypto in late 2017/early 2018: the adrenaline and excitement and focus and insane growth. It’s intoxicating.

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3) My first, and biggest, piece of advice: don’t lose that. If you run into people asking you to chill out or prioritize work life balance, or who say you’ll stress out your employees by setting an unreasonable standard, or that they’re worried that maybe it might not work out:

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4) Ignore them. Maybe they’re right, and maybe they’re not (probably they’re not); but either way, this is how great things are built. And usually, they forget that what matters is upside, and that you see that upside and they don’t.

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5) If you can visualize a future, and you work like hell for it, and you throw every ounce of your being into making it happen, and you are capable and sharp and nimble and update well, then you have a fighting shot at it.

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6) The second thing I want to talk about is what happened when the music stopped. ---------------------

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I needed to read this this morning! Thanks for sharing.

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Survivor bias. There's a lot of people that do that and never make it. ... However, it's better to fight and fail rather to never have fought at all.

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Never will anyone Fight for the Love of "it" Simply not to make it. ~ JohnnyBoy

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Perseverance and the will to fight will take us to unimaginable places. Thanks for the Friday motivation, SB!

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Perseverance and the will to fight will take us to unimaginable places.

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I visualize a future where I randomly bump into sbf at BTC con 2022, and we chat over a few drinks about the future of finance. After that we play some beer pong while listening to electronic music. We win and he decides to tip me off on the next pumper. Life is good.