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🗓️ 13 August 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is Steveer Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more. |
0:09.0 | I'm here today with Mike Lewis, who's an entrepreneur investor and the author of When to Jump, |
0:13.9 | if the job you have isn't the life you want. Welcome, Mike. Thanks so much for having me, |
0:18.5 | Steveer. So tell me what is this about. |
0:21.6 | What do you mean when to jump? |
0:22.9 | Jump where? |
0:23.7 | This whole community and now company and platform was built over really just a simple idea, |
0:28.6 | which was this question of when do you go do what you really want to go do in life. |
0:32.4 | And for me, it was a personal struggle because I didn't know when to chase this long-held dream of mine. |
0:39.8 | As a kid, I was exposed to a professional sport called squash. |
0:43.8 | I thought it was the coolest thing. |
0:45.6 | It's a niche sport. |
0:46.5 | There was only a few courts in our community. |
0:48.5 | And I told myself one day when I met a professional player, we actually put him up in our |
0:52.5 | home for a few nights. |
0:53.4 | He was traveling through. |
0:54.5 | I said, I'm going to go do that. |
0:56.2 | And the trouble is you get on a path in life where it's actually not so easy to decide when you're going to go chase your dreams. |
1:01.3 | And so 10 years after meeting that player, I sat in my office at a venture capital firm, and on paper felt like I won the lottery. |
1:07.9 | You know, it was a job I could explain to others. |
1:09.8 | My parents were proud, |
1:15.6 | but I still wanted to go play pro squash. And so when to jump really started as I collected stories of other people, sharing their ideas and insights and lessons learned of taking a risk |
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