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Published · transcript-backedGraham Weaver: belief
16 Jan 2025 Lenny's Podcast How to break out of autopilot and create the life you want | Graham Weaver (Stanford GSB professor, founder of Alpine Investors)
“I think you get a little bit of peace of mind when you have some financial security, which is valuable.”
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- Graham Weaver
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- belief
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- 16 Jan 2025
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…I was just having a conversation with a friend who's an angel investor, and he just had a bunch of exits. And he's like, "Cool, I got some money in my bank account now, but I don't feel anything. I thought I'd be like, 'Holy moly, this is exactly what I was hoping for. And nothing changed.'" Exactly how you're describing. I think you get a little bit of peace of mind when you have some financial security, which is valuable. But in terms of now my life changes, now I'm enough, now I am happy, now I feel good about myself, none of that changes, for really anybody that I know. And the hardest part, as you said, is you think it will. You think, "Oh, I'll be so happy once I achieve this thing." And I think an example of this is there's a lot of miserable billionaires, from what I've read and see. And that should tell you a lot.…
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