Do What You Love Even if it Kills You with Filip Syata

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Andrew Ferebee

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🗓️ 12 November 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Ex-Googler Filip Syta left the tech world to write books and his debut literary novel tells you why — in a satirical, true and unsavory tale, revealing the savagery beneath the shiny veneer of Silicon Valley.

In 2011, Syta graduated with a master’s degree in entrepreneurship from Lund University, Lund, Sweden. He aspires to make readers identify the truly important things in life.

Favorite Success Quote

“Find what you love and let it kill you”~Charles Bukowski

Key Points

1. Never Allow Life to Rob you of Self Reliance

Often times it is easy to become complacent and allow life to rob you of your self-reliance. You find a job with great benefits, you find a wife who takes care of all of the chores, whatever happens, life becomes too cozy.

As a great Persian general once said “Soft lands make for soft people”

Never become soft. You need to be able to take care of yourself and get things done, if you can’t be dropped into a new city all by yourself, find a job, run a household, and build a social life, then something needs to change.

2. Focus on Your Passion, not Your Paycheck

People often spend so much time following the money, doing things that make the miserable, doing things that take away from their family lives, that take away from their health, and destroying your relationships.

While money is important and necessary, doing things that you love and making an impact is far more important. At the end of the day, the cars you drove and the houses you lived in won’t matter. The 0s at the end of your paycheck won’t matter, but what will matter is how you lived your life, the people you impacted, and the passion that filled your days.

3. The Rewards are There

Whenever people talk about passion and pursuing your dreams, there is also an inevitable conversation about “the grind,” because greatness doesn’t come without struggle. Following your passion is hard, doing what you love is hard. It is much easier to simply find a safe job that you don’t hate, get into a comfortable relationship that you know will, at best, be mediocre, and not get fat.

Putting it all on the line and struggling through low income, loss of love and friendship to achieve a distant goal is difficult. However, the rewards are there. Once you put the work in, you will see results. Don’t stop 3 feet from gold.

Keep pushing and pursue your dreams because the rewards are there.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Knowledge for Men's Show. Your life will never be the same. Your level of success will
0:05.1	seldom exceed your level of personal development. I want to die empty of regret. I want to die
0:10.2	empty of my best work. We don't understand who we are. Instead, we're living out somebody else's narrative.
0:15.8	But one man can do, another man can do. If it's been done, it can be done again.
0:20.1	Being yourself and being your truest, most authentic self in every do. If it's been done, it can be done again. Being yourself and being your
0:21.4	truest, most authentic self in every moment, if it scares you or makes you a little afraid, do it,
0:27.7	follow your heart and your gut. The first stage, I think, is finding you, like finding out who I am
0:32.8	today. Stuff will not work. You will have things that fail. Success is when you're a happy,
0:37.8	fulfilled person. How do you define success? It's your life and you are the creator of the movie script
0:44.0	that is your life story. Do you ever feel like you're doing the journey alone? Have you ever felt
0:52.3	like that you just need someone to talk to, someone who could bring some perspective into your world? Or maybe you're not the type of person
0:58.3	who learns from watching video courses or reading books, and you just want to talk with
1:02.1	someone specifically about your challenges and how to break through them. I want to introduce
1:06.6	you to the high performance men's coaching program. It's an intensive coaching experience designed to
1:11.4	unlock a man's full potential in his life, business, and relationships. Over this past year,
1:17.2	I've brought together and trained some of the best coaches in the world to help men step up,
1:22.0	stop playing small, and become the strongest versions of themselves. Learn more about high-performance
1:27.0	men's coaching at
1:27.8	KFmcoach.com. Again, that's KFmcoach.com. You are not alone, and we are here to cut through
1:35.0	the crap, hold you accountable, and challenge you so that you can make your dreams become a
1:39.8	reality. Go to kfmcoach.com to learn more and apply. All right, guys, welcome to the show.
1:46.0	I'm here with Philip Saita.
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