We do things mostly for freedom. We want to feel that we have agency over the circumstances that we face. The question now is not how to become free, but how free am I really with what I have now?
Unknowingly we try to entangle ourselves with petty businesses that takes more of our freedom than make us more free. Sure, we have to “work hard” to buy time in the future because that should be the goal of every entrepreneurs who like me started from nothing, but what you work on and who you work with is so much more important.
A friend of mine is living a superfluous life. She has a business that gives her the status to be “this type of entrepreneur” but complains on how spread too thin she really is. What’s the matter? Why is now the key to her freedom becomes the prison itself?
What’s the point of doing this business when it shackles you instead? Maybe it’s honor, just like what I have with Revere, but we can only put up with stressors up to a point.
Think about what you’re about to do. Ask yourself if this thing makes you a free man or a slave. Slave of status, praise or even recognition from others while making yourself unproductive and dull.
If most of these things won’t matter when you die as what all these airport books will say, what would my life be like?
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