Speaker 2
Yes. So this might be a good way to start talking about the arc of the practical creator. One of your recent posts, and i think i've read a bunch of your stuff before this, but i think this one resognated a lot. It put words to things i was experiencing on my journey. And also, i think brings alive what this is really like. And i think you said something really powerful at the end, is like, here's the punch line, that every stage will be challenging. And that's the point. Like, i think people look at es alternative paths, is like, oka, how can i solve it? How can i like, make money and make it work? Pretty much, if you're going to stay in a path like this, i think you're, you're sort of seeing the challenge as having some value and being like a guard rail tol like making you reflect on thing, making you grapple with your insecurities, things like that. So yet, maybe, maybe. So you say, three stages, and you can give me the high level more clearly. But you have like the money, figuring out the money, and then the great plateau, and then the creative career, like committing to that and going forward. So the money thing, it sounds like you were back at your job, and the money was coming from your job of funding a you kindo do that creative work. How did you think about that in the moment, and then how do you think about it looking back?
Speaker 1
i think in the moment, all i knew was that i was building wealth for some reasoni i i knew that i was exchanging my time for money, and that money was going to convert into some sort of freedom of attention that i could dedicate to something else. That's how, actually, that's how i almost always viewed money as from the moment i even started in in finance, like, i knew that there was something else i wanted to do, but that this would afford me the ability to do whatever that is. So i kind of had this viewpoint from the beginning, but that the challenge was more so an knowing, like what exactly that was. And i think it was only through hindsight where i kind of put it together that most people that work in in, you know, day jobs, or just the very fact that you're calling something a day job means that there's something else that you're working towards. Like, you know, terminology is very important when we refer to certain things in an ways, there is always some other motive behind it. So, you know, whenever someone says, i have a day jobn i'm always like, what are you so what are you doing this for? Like, that's the very next question i like to ask the moment you say day job. And a, i think like this is a pretty ubiquitous phenomenon, where you're kind of just doing this transfer of one thing to another. And the genesis of this piece really was it really answered one problem, that's what kind of got me going on this piece, was the problem of patience, in terms of, like, you just got to keep going. Like, there is this adage that every, every person will nod their heads to li you just keep going, and then the benefits of compound interest will taketoke into effect, and that everything will be all right. But it just doesn't address the question of financial safety nets. It's really sexy to attribute success to patience, but not as sexy to attribute it to financial safety nets that could buffer you against failure. And it's really important to have that in mind when you're embarking on a path like this.