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🗓️ 26 July 2025
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0:00.0 | From April 2nd, when you truly work for yourself, you won't have hobbies, you won't have |
0:06.7 | weekends, and you won't have vacations, but you won't have work either. |
0:12.1 | This is the paradox of working for yourself, which every entrepreneur or every self-employed |
0:16.4 | person is familiar with, which is that when you start working for yourself, you basically sacrifice |
0:22.1 | this work-life balance thing. You sacrifice this work-life distinction. There's no more 9-5, |
0:28.5 | there's no more office, there's no one who's telling you what to do, there's no playbook to |
0:32.6 | follow. At the same time, there's nothing to turn off. You can't turn it off. You are the business, |
0:37.5 | you are the product, you are the business. You are the product. |
0:38.5 | You are the work. |
0:39.2 | You are the entity. |
0:40.6 | And you care. |
0:41.4 | If you're doing something that's truly yours, you care very deeply. So you can't turn it off. And that's the curse of the entrepreneur. but the benefit of the entrepreneur is that if you're doing it right, |
0:37.6 | if you're doing it for the right reasons or the right people in the right way, |
0:40.6 | and if you can set aside the stress of not |
0:58.5 | hitting your goals, which is real and hard to set aside, then it doesn't feel like work. |
1:03.4 | And that's when you're most productive. You're basically only measured on your output and you're |
1:08.4 | only held up to the bar that you raise for yourself. So it can be |
1:11.9 | extremely exhilarating and freeing. And this is why I said a long time ago that a taste of |
1:17.0 | freedom can make you unemployable. And so this is exactly that taste of freedom. It makes |
1:22.0 | you unemployable in the classic sense of nine to five and following the playbook and having a boss. |
1:26.9 | But once you have broken out of that, |
1:29.3 | once you've walked the tightrope without a net, without a boss, without a job, and by the way, |
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