Boring corporate job or follow your passion? 🤔
You’ll never think about your career the same way again…
Hello beautiful readers 👋
Here’s your weekly injection of Steroids For Your Brain 🧠
How to stop being a pussy ✍️
Is your 9-5 job as safe as you think?
Is that finance role really the low-risk option?
We’ve been brought up to worry excessively about financial risk, terrified of going broke.
But what about happiness risk - the risk of not being happy?
Happiness Risk is the mental model I used when choosing to build a startup over investment banking or doing a Master’s. And it’s consistently led me into a happier and more fulfilling life.
Give it 5 minutes, and you’ll never think about risk the same way again…
👉 The full article (5 min read): How To Stop Being A Pussy
Something To Make You Think 🤔
What’s stopping you from rolling your dice?
Based on my article above, what fears/worries are holding you back from doing the thing you really want to do?
Scared of going broke? Worried what your friends might think?
Once you know what’s holding you back, how can you mitigate those factors?
For example, when I started my first serious startup, I was terrified it wouldn’t work out…so I continued tutoring part-time every Sunday until we raised money and I could take a full-time salary.
Hit reply with your answer! 👇
Extremely Interesting Fact 🤓
Otters hold hands while floating on water so they don’t drift apart. Isn’t that just the f*cking cutest?
Other C👀l Things
Latest episode of the High Performance 4 Lazy People (HP4LP) podcast is with Ben Williams - Royal Marines commando, now a tech CEO, who beat suicide, drug addiction and more.
He shares the commando mindset and military breathing techniques for hyper-focus / staying calm.
🎵 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and all other platforms!
Get In Touch 👇
As always, I’d love to hear from you.
Suggestions, improvements, collaborations, things you’re struggling with, brain-splitting existential crises…just hit reply.
Andrew ✌️❤️