How do you maintain motivation when facing setbacks and challenges? Via @thebestfounders #samaltman

How do you maintain motivation when facing setbacks and challenges?

Via @thebestfounders

#samaltman #openai #founders #startupadvice

charlie.munger.wisdom

2024-04-03 19:03:20

i was told and i thought for a long time that you get burned out from working too hard

and at least in my own experience what i found is that burnout actually comes from

feeling and things not working

momentum is really energizing

the lack momentum is super draining

and

i find that i have infinite energy to work on things that i find interesting and that are working

and almost none to work on things that i either don't find interesting or aren't working

and so i think you see a lot of founders try something and fail

and assume that they just can't work hard enough phenomenon of energy or passion or whatever

and that's actually not true

it's just that that thing didn't work and what you should do is shut the company down

go on vacation and try again

and many people then find that oh actually when i'm doing this thing that i like

and that is working

i have a huge amount of energy and i can get a lot of stuff done and so when you look at really successful people and say how do they get all those things done

it's they have the benefit of momentum

and momentum is energizing and the lack momentum

is really not energizing

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