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#36 - Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit - Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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How to Stay Motivated When You're on a Treadmill

I almost quit when I had no idea how to do ad sales because I didn't amount of sales person. After like two months of trying it, I was like, hey, I'm pretty good at this. Same with the podcast. I've never done it before and ended up going pretty well. But back to what was hard about it, any time where I let myself dwell in solitude for way too long, it was when I would think about like, this is hard. When I would open up to the community and send an email and say, hey, here's what I'm working on,. Here's what's hard, and get support. And it suddenly was much easier.

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