How to find your thing
4/27/202655 min
Run your life like a $100M business. Get the system here: https://clickhubspot.com/ehw2c Episode 818: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about how to design a life worth living. — Show Notes: (0:00) Follow your bliss (3:33) enthusiasm, enduring enthusiasm, mastery, passion (16:23) Find a loop that you love (24:49) The top 5 regrets of the dying — Links: • The Top 5 Regrets of The Dying - https://a.co/d/07V6Zze9 — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /
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First 90 secondsSam Parr· Host0:00
Dude, when you use the word stack I get all- Right ... fired up.
Shaan Puri· Host0:02
Dude, why don't we just describe our podcast that way? Us, Founders Acquired, it's the most potent stack [laughs] of testosterone- [laughs] ... boosting for founders.
Sam Parr· Host0:10
Yeah.
Speaker 2· Soundbite0:11
[laughs] [singing] I feel like I could rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. Uh, I put my all in it like no days off. On the road less traveled.
Shaan Puri· Host0:20
All right. So Sam, I was in Austin last week, and I was at a restaurant. So we're sitting down at the table, guy comes up and he's a fan of the podcast, and he says hi, and he was like, "Oh, yeah, I loved the episodes with you and Sam," blah, blah, blah. And I asked him, I go, "What's one thing you want us to talk about?" We're getting... We're almost 1,000 episodes in. Give me a little inspiration. And so I said, "What's one thing you want us to talk about?" And he goes, "Well, I don't know what other people want, but here's what I want." And he told me he's, uh, he's 24 years old. He's like, "I know I'm smart, I know I'm har- hardworking, I just don't know kinda which lane to go in. I'm ready to swim, but I don't know which lane to go in." And what he said was, he's like, you know, basically the generic advice is like, oh, just follow your passion, and he basically described this problem, which is, like, I've been in school. My teachers, my parents, like, I was told what to do. You gotta take these classes, you gotta g- take these tests, you gotta get these marks, and that's... It's, like, super structured. All of a sudden, graduates. Now he's just on his own. So went from super structured to completely unstructured, and he's like, "I know that I should be doing something. My friends are all doing this. I don't think I wanna do that," banking, consulting type of jobs. And his question was basically, they say follow your passion,