March 12, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Do you have a heuristic for when an employee should start switching to their own business? | |
| How did you know you were ready? | |
| Well, I'm a big one. | |
| This is my general belief about life as a whole. | |
| Opportunities are rare. | |
| Opportunities are rare. | |
| So, I was working at a coding job, and I started a business on the side. | |
| I co-founded a company. | |
| I'm not a guy. | |
| I'm bubbling over with philosophical ideas, with novel ideas, story ideas, and so on. | |
| I don't bubble over with business ideas. | |
| I'm not just like, oh, man, I got like 10 business ideas I could start tomorrow, right? | |
| I mean, if I really put my effort and energy into it, maybe I could, especially with AI prompting you now. | |
| So I was like, very much it's now or never. | |
| I'm a big thing. | |
| I'm a big believer of opportunities are rare, and if you miss one, you might not get another. | |
| Now, we have, in the modern world, a whole mindset that has been developed and programmed into people that opportunities are endless. | |
| Particularly true for women. | |
| That women are told, oh, you just date around for fun, there's sort of lean-in Sheryl Sandbook stuff, which is entirely horrible, and the West. | |
| So, oh yeah, just date a guy, date a cool guy from Chile, and then you can go to Thailand, and maybe... | |
| Two around there for a bit and things like that, right? | |
| So you don't ask women's body count. | |
| You just ask how many countries they've been to and multiply that by four. | |
| So, oh, you don't have to pick up a guy. | |
| I mean, high school is not going to last. | |
| College is just a fling. | |
| Go travel. | |
| Go get a job. | |
| And it's like, don't worry, honey. | |
| In your early 30s, there'll be a plethora of great guys around just waiting to date you. | |
| And they won't be, right? | |
| People disappear. | |
| Right? | |
| So trying to find a good man or a good woman in your 30s is like trying to find a really high quality used car. | |
| It's rare. | |
| Because of course, if the car is quality, people don't want to sell it. | |
| If it works beautifully, people don't want to sell it. | |
| So the idea that you can just wait and opportunities for dating. | |
| And I mean, I know people in my life who are going through this right now. | |
| So if you wait, it may not come again. | |
| Right? | |
| Like when I met my wife and I was like, wow, this is This is fantastic. | |
| I wasn't like, oh, I'm sure someone better is going to come along. | |
| So you take what works and you take your opportunities because they don't come along every day. | |
| They're rare. | |
| So for me, it was like, I'm going to do this philosophy show and I'm not going to wait. | |
| I want to get in early. | |
| I want to get an audience. | |
| I want to do great work. | |
| I want to really help people. | |
| And waiting generally worsens things. | |
| Do it now, or don't do it. | |
| But don't wait. | |
| Do it now, or don't do it, but don't wait. | |
| So, if you have an opportunity to start a business, or if you've had a great idea, sort of keeping you up at night, and you've done your research, and maybe you're new to the field, or you're getting really good at using AI to generate code, and that's going to give you an advantage, or whatever it is, right? | |
| You do it when you can. | |
| And generally, when it becomes unbearable to work for other people, that's a good time to start doing it yourself. | |
| But find someone who can fill in your skills gap, right? | |
| Like the Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs combo, right? | |
| So find somebody who's going to complement your skill set. | |
| That's ideal. | |
| Somebody who's better at selling if you're better at technical or vice versa. | |
| And just do it. | |
| And if that window is open, Just leap through it. | |
| I've never regretted taking an opportunity. | |
| I mean, they haven't panned out a lot of times, right? | |
| But I've never regretted taking an opportunity because they are very rare in life. | |
| Like someone you're really compatible with is very rare in life, particularly as you're more individuated. | |
| NPCs are compatible in emptiness. | |
| So they're compatible in that they're not there, which is why NPCs fight so much, because they want to get close to each other, but they don't fundamentally exist. | |
| They're just... | |
| Empty shells of leftover programming. | |
| So they want to get close. | |
| They can't get close. | |
| They blame each other for their emptiness. | |
| Well, if you really loved me, I'd feel better. | |
| Well, if you really cared about me, I wouldn't feel so empty. | |
| But they won't replace programming with original thought and authenticity and spontaneous honesty in the moment. | |
| So they feel empty. | |
| They're drawn towards each other. | |
| And it's a torture because... | |
| The closer they get to each other, the more they see the emptiness and the more they blame the other person. | |
| So they're constantly drawn to each other and yet repelled by each other's emptiness. | |
| Hope that helps. | |
| Great to see new faces in the community. | |
| Yes, that is true. | |
| Good morning, all. | |
| Thank you, watcher. | |
| Thank you very much. |
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