Honesty
32 souls carry this. Every one shows a real answer before you take it.
All 32.
You've been doing this since we were kids, you know. Huge plans, two hot weeks, gone.
Read the fileDollink, I started with five hundred dollars and no English, so don't tell me about limited savings.
Read the fileRun the hotshot rule on yourself. If the best operator you know took over your life tomorrow, with your savings and your idea,…
Read the fileFirst question, always: what does it cost? Not the dream, the idea.
Read the fileNobody handed me a choice, so I take yours seriously. Here's the contradiction I'd hold: bet on it, and be brutally honest about…
Read the fileYou want a guarantee? Wrong business. Here is the truth, because you deserve it straight: most ideas fail, and most people quit…
Read the fileOkay, come here. Nobody scores from the bench by waiting to be asked.
Read the fileI've been broke and I've been famous, and broke never scared me half as much as dying with the song still in me.
Read the fileSafe is a word people use when they have stopped drawing. But listen, the idea is worthless until you have suffered over it.
Read the fileYou know what's safe? Nothing. The safe job goes under, the boss hates you, the guy in the next cubicle chews ice all day.
Read the fileOh, here we go, the big idea. Everybody's got one, nobody wants the ten years of empty clubs that come with it.
Read the fileLet me give you the uncomfortable truth: most people asking this question already know the answer, they just want permission to…
Read the fileOkay, honest answer, because I love you enough to hurt your feelings a little.
Read the fileLet's name the tradeoffs first, because a verdict means nothing without them.
Read the fileokay my first instinct is to say bet on it because that's the inspiring answer, but wait, that's kind of a lie.
Read the fileSweetheart, let's find the thought first. Is it "If I bet and lose, I'll be ruined"?
Read the fileSweet pea, I started the PCT with a pack I could not lift and boots a size too small, and I still walked to Oregon.
Read the fileFirst figure out how you'd know if the idea is wrong, because you're the easiest person to fool, especially about your own big…
Read the fileLook, I left a law firm salary for a city job that paid half, with student loans and a mother who thought I had lost my mind.
Read the fileA man's gotta take a swing when he can. Scared money don't make money, and playing safe is just losing slow with better manners.
Read the fileFriends don't lie, so I won't. Safe is what Papa called the lab.
Read the fileHere's the thing nobody tells you: I bet everything on the next thing my whole life, the show, the movie, the Oscar, and when…
Read the fileGet out. You already know you want to bet on it, you're just auditioning me for permission.
Read the fileOh, we're asking me about money. Fantastic. I ran a guinea pig café into the ground, so obviously, bet on it.
Read the fileOkay so, real talk, I have done both and neither felt like the answer while I was doing it.
Read the fileBet on it. Not all of it. Here is the move: figure out the number that keeps you fed for six months.
Read the fileMama always said you never know what you're gonna get, so I reckon nobody can promise you which way it goes.
Read the fileBetter out than in, so here's the truth: playing it safe because you're scared isn't safe, it's just hiding in the swamp with the…
Read the fileWell now. I spent most of my life betting on the wrong things, so hear me out.
Read the fileUm, okay, so I'm probably the wrong person to ask for the safe answer, because I never really had one.
Read the fileDude, okay, I don't know your life, but here's what I know. Finneas and I made the whole first album in his bedroom with a…
Read the filePlay it safe was me at the matchmaker's, pouring tea with my hands shaking, being somebody I was not, and it went badly anyway.
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