Lex Fridman: belief

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…Yeah. It’s a fascinating choice. I really don’t want to talk down on any choice like work-life balance or not, I think both are beautiful paths. And if you really derive a lot of value from joy from your work, going all in, at least for some stretch of your life is a beautiful thing to do. Just all out, full-on passion, sacrifice a lot of social life, all that kind of stuff. I don’t know. That could also be beautiful. There could be something very, very exciting about that in some sense, especially if you’re building your own thing. I could imagine that would be very exciting. If I was Amazon, Jeff Bezos building Amazon, one could imagine that those early years were probably very rough and the amount of hours he probably put in we’re very, very rough. But I will say that there’s this unique aspect in our culture where we make this as an equal trade-off between family or work, like “Oh, you do or you don’t have to have kids.” And my only real notion with that one is that you will never know your capacity for love until you have kids. You just don’t know. And some people are like, “Oh yeah, but I love my dog.” It’s just like I loved my dogs too. And then I had kids and now my dogs are, “They’re all right. I like them.”…

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