Muss das Leben einen Sinn haben?

0:00So this blew my mind. So I was in around that same period of time I because I talked to everybody I could to try and get context on this. And so I I called a friend of mine up um or not friend I would say acquaintance that I got connected with who'd sold his company for hundreds of millions of dollars. Really bright guy. And one of the questions I asked him I said so how do you how do you derive meaning from your life?

0:24And he said an answer that really really shook me. um which doesn't happen that much given my worldview. He said, 'Why do you think that life needs to be meaningful? And it was just this really interesting question, which is basically that I had an unspoken demand of the universe. Life should be meaningful. I should be happy. And so it's the shoulds that we don't even know that we think and say, that are the ones that change us the most like hardcore. And so my favorite quote of all time, which is probably at the front of a few of the books that I have and will probably be the one that'll be on my my tombstone, is a permutation of an orson Scott card quote, which is we question all of our beliefs except for those that we truly believe and those we never think to question.

1:05>> Mhm. >> And so I would say that a lot of my entrepreneurial career, even just human journey, has been what are the beliefs that I so so inherently believe that I don't don't even see them. I don't even think about the should. And so when he said that to me, I was like, whoa, I have had this inherent demand of the universe that my life be meaningful. And now people would hear this and be like, they have their shoulds and they're going to say, well, it should be meaningful. And I'm like, why? According to what? And if we look at history, history pretty much sweeps everyone under the under the bed like within a hundred years. And within a thousand years, basically everyone and the people that we remember, we remember some of their works. and we go a 100,000 years in the future or 10,000 years in the future, probably unlikely that we will be remembered in general. And that is solving for the idea that we need to be remembered again. We have to why? And so my solving has been for um degrees of freedom and uh responsibility. So what are the things that I can control? and I will do the very best of my ability to try and do the things um within my control to ideally make other people's lives better and my own in the process.

2:16Now, that is a choice rather than a I demand that of the universe. Um and this gets really abstract and heady really fast and so I will try and you know bring us back down to earth. But by by by demanding that life be meaningful, by demanding that I be happy. When I understood that I was demanding these things and and pursuing them that they were outside of me by saying I need to do this that I created inherent space that I could never gap or I could never close. And so by trying to forget or eliminate the demand is where it was the first time that I experienced those things. And so I try to keep them out of my head to the greatest degree possible so that I can be inside of them. That sounds weird. Uh [laughter] um rather than in pursuit. And so that um and so the times where I derive the most joy from my life, if I'm if I'm optimizing for that, which is I wouldn't necessarily say that I am optimizing for joy. Um I think Williamson was like, you definitely optimize for purpose or meaning or something like that. And um I I kind of reject a lot of it. mostly because I do what I have been rewarded for doing in the past. And so because I have a behaviorist view of the world, which is that everything boils down to behaviors. Um why do I do these things? I do these things because when I have done them in the past, I have enjoyed the result. And so I continue to do things that I've enjoyed the result of. And if other people have done things that they enjoy the result of, then I encourage you to keep doing them. And I also encourage you to not project that other people need to also do those things and that they will experience the same result as you cuz they might not. Real quick, I'm going to show you the exact 10-stage road map from zero to 100 million plus that less than 1% of companies finish I've now done multiple times. And so I can say with a lot of confidence that these are the stages as headcount increases that you need to get through.

4:07And I broke each of these down by eight different functions of the business, what the constraint feels like, like what are the symptoms of it when you're going through it, and then what steps we actually took to graduate. And we've done this across software, physical products, uh service businesses, brickandmortar, all of this. and it works. And it's my gift to you. It's absolutely free. And so the link's in the description, but you just go acquisition.com/roadmap. Just enter your info and it'll spit it right back to you.