I felt like I somehow needed fame.
As luck would have it, I got to test this hypothesis.
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Still one of my favorite cautionary tales. I’d long suspected fame wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be, but this definitely made me look at it differently.
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Thx for sharing this Tim! Would u be open to lunch (on me if course) and maybe pick your brain further on this subject?
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Specifically fame (not money or power?) why do you think you felt you needed it? (If it’s not prying to ask)
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I think there's a naval-ism that says something like it's best to be wealthy and anonymous rather than wealthy and famous. Though I wonder how much of the fame downsides can be mitigated by a high degree of security/privacy/compartmentalizing?
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I was just journaling on the question, "What lesson have you already learned, but isn’t yet reflected in your actions?"
This fits somewhere in there...
I grew up "programmed" to desire fame, but now I realize how toxic it is, and yet I still use fame as a barometer for success.
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I’d always think the weirdest thing about fame is that if I run into you in the street, I would say hi. Because that’s what you do with people you know. But usually the people you know, know you too. And that’s not the case with fame. It’s asymmetric.
