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Your Future Self Is Watching. Make It Proud.

Startup Bell0:59

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All big things start small.

Sure.

So, you've got to you got to accept that. That's the way it is. And you got to plant an acorn and and and work hard and water it and nurture it and maybe it grows into a big tree.

For me, I made that decision. And I knew that if I didn't try, I would always be haunted by that. I would always have regret. I would always wonder what might have been.

And I think that that's the best way when you're making a deeply personal decision about your own life. You can make pros and cons lists. You can be as analytical as you want, but at the end of the day, you have to project yourself forward. You know, age 80, you know, we're all living longer now, maybe age 90, and say, do I want to be haunted by that regret? I want to minimize the number of regrets I have in my life.

And when you start thinking that way, that you're looking back on your life from age 90, most regrets are acts of omission.