I think one of the things I took from the 4-hour workweek and that I've gotten from you regularly is you tend to think more about like quality of life right now so don't work a crappy job that you hate so in 50 years you can retire and go to the beach think about what decisions you can make now that gives you the access to the beach mm-hmm in the in the intermediate or shirt short term so I tend to think more like as an experiment yes specifically yes because you may get at the end of
the line you're like oh I actually don't like sailing total and this was my made-up dream for 50 years for which I sacrificed all these other things yeah so I think it's like is this giving me like day-to-day what I like more or less you know so that your that's my version of the energy thing is like am I having the time and the life that I want not am I doing this so maybe I get that in the future and it seems like as a person who popularized this lifestyle design that's kind of your
core message it's like are you designing a life you actually like living in that is that is a huge piece of it and if we wanted to parse that out even further it's it's really trying to cultivate an acute awareness of knowns and unknowns and if you look at lifestyle design for people who aren't familiar with the term so lifestyle design would have effectively be a contrasting sort of philosophical lens through which to look at career and personal development that is juxtaposed with the the kind of slave safe retire I am going to cash in
my chips in 20 30 40 years that will then redeem this period of doing many things that I disliked okay which is not to say you're always going to enjoy doing everything yeah like I don't know many people who love doing their taxes yeah there are things that you need to do but I don't know how it gets exactly what they want when they're 20 years old I don't even like you have to earn and build and yeah invest yeah there's a there's a period of testing that goes on to determine where you are particularly
adept looking at we don't do have to rehash of the book but suffice to say there are ways that you can test the and should test the hypothesis that in X period of time when I do y it is going to give me a Z amount of pleasure that will make up for these decisions I'm making in the interim that is a that is a very continue that is a fear that is contingent on many things being accurate yeah and in my experience effective lifestyle design is effective testing and awareness investing is for me at
least has been effective testing and developing keen awareness of things that most people don't pay attention to or a lot of people don't pay attention to so if we're looking at for instance living in New York City versus living in Austin someone might say well I'm just going to live here for another ten years I'm going to have these following promotions in my investment-banking job and then I'm gonna move to Hudson Valley and I'm gonna move to Santa Barbara I'm gonna move to and then live the good life sure you will right yeah so you've
that if that is your life plan like let's spend some time developing experiments to prove or disprove that before you dedicate the next 20 years to it but people will very often spend more time planning them their Memorial Day weekend then they will spec'ing out tests right so if you look at so hey is there anything in your historical record to suggest that you will be able to walk away from something like that right anything yeah if you are type-a right and by definition in that circumstance you're probably type-a yeah and there are many many
many many faulty assumptions yeah I think that I I am very very accepting of the fact that there are many things I don't know and there are many things that I take for granted and there are many things that I don't see yeah therefore I I spend a lot of my time developing experiments and that's that's my constant framework like how can I be sure that I know X yeah which you know relates to in 2015 walking away from start investing so I was like alright if I look at the track record of these various
companies not only in my portfolio but others for the biggest wins it's taking if we're looking at say Shopify uber etc it's taking seven to twelve years yeah to come to fruition and your final tally is not known until you've liquidated all of your holdings effectively I mean yeah it's a little more complicated than that but but not by much so even though on paper and also in exits it would I could convince myself that I am good at this and people tell me I'm good at this that remains to be seen you
