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Graham 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)

“Exactly. And I think that's the thing. It's just trying to make it a little less intimidating.”

— Graham Weaver

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Speaker
Graham Weaver
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belief
Recorded
16 Jan 2025
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

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…There's a couple things there that come up as you talk about. One is, on that point, what I do now is my fourth career. First I was an engineer, then I became a founder, then I was a PM, and now I do whatever the heck this is. And I think people don't realize that's how life often goes. You think you're going to do one thing, and then you have many different careers that pivot into [inaudible 00:46:46]. Exactly. And I think that's the thing. It's just trying to make it a little less intimidating. You don't have to have this one life purpose, passion, thing that you do for the rest of your life. If you just follow the thing that gives you energy at each time, it'll probably be a good indication of where you want to be going. The other thread there is, I know one of your other really important pieces of advice is to avoid this not now idea, where everyone's like, "Here's the thing I should be doing, my genie goal, but not now." Thoughts on just how to think about that, of just like, "Okay, I know I have these lives I could live, but not now," on this or that?…

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