In the section of your reply, "Embracing Discomfort" you respond to my feeling of "yuck" for going into debt for my business with an alternative, and more positive, framing of the situation but saying: "There is that feeling of discomfort. It is here because I am building something important." I read this a while ago, and used this to comfort my wife, who is building the business with me. She was feeling stressed and overwhelmed, and I adopted your mindset and reminded her that we are the lucky ones because we GET to feel this stress. So many people experience little stress because they aren't building something special like we are. Once they clock out, it's simply time to relax until the morning. But we get to feel the stress of bringing something new to the world, and it's an honor. This actually helped her relax significantly.
Leaving the realm of business, this mindset you shared Raj reminds me of a great Richard Dawkins quote that has helped me accept my future death. He writes in an essay, or a part of one of his books, that "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones..." Then follows it up by describing the wild improbabilities that we individuals, that I Artie, or you, Raj, would ever leave the realm of nonexistence and experience this joy that is called Life. So while it will come to an end for us, what Dawkins wrote has helped me appreciate the life that I've been blessed with, more than fearing it's end. Here's a link to a video where he reads it (I think the best part starts from the beginning until 48 seconds in):
https://youtu.be/IOXMjCnKwb4?si=NhEfXg-Kcd2VdWvE
In the section of your reply, "Embracing Discomfort" you respond to my feeling of "yuck" for going into debt for my business with an alternative, and more positive, framing of the situation but saying: "There is that feeling of discomfort. It is here because I am building something important." I read this a while ago, and used this to comfort my wife, who is building the business with me. She was feeling stressed and overwhelmed, and I adopted your mindset and reminded her that we are the lucky ones because we GET to feel this stress. So many people experience little stress because they aren't building something special like we are. Once they clock out, it's simply time to relax until the morning. But we get to feel the stress of bringing something new to the world, and it's an honor. This actually helped her relax significantly. Leaving the realm of business, this mindset you shared Raj reminds me of a great Richard Dawkins quote that has helped me accept my future death. He writes in an essay, or a part of one of his books, that "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones..." Then follows it up by describing the wild improbabilities that we individuals, that I Artie, or you, Raj, would ever leave the realm of nonexistence and experience this joy that is called Life. So while it will come to an end for us, what Dawkins wrote has helped me appreciate the life that I've been blessed with, more than fearing it's end. Here's a link to a video where he reads it (I think the best part starts from the beginning until 48 seconds in): https://youtu.be/IOXMjCnKwb4?si=NhEfXg-Kcd2VdWvE