World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.
You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.
One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.
It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.
A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.
Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.