What is it like to wake up every morning and pretend that you aren’t dying?
This is how I live every day.
I am excited and liberated each day knowing that I have an eternity in front of me.
This changes how I approach many aspects of my life, especially my career.
I am able to find more day to day balance because I am not in a race.
I don’t have to rush through my career. I don’t have to reach my goals before the age of 65, I plan to work indefinitely.
I did not need my first million before the age of thirty. When I am 900 years old and looking back at my life, will it have mattered if I hit that goal at 30 or that I waited until I was 40?
I argue that it will not. What mattered more during those early years is how I prepared my children for their futures during their most impressionable and important years. I trained myself to be ready for real long term success.
Play the long game, don’t sprint and blow your wad too early. We have a long time to reach greatness.
Our ancestors stole fire from the gods, we will steal their omniscience and thus omnipotence.