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#643: Why I Fired Myself | Scott Armstrong (Clip) · Macroaggressions

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  One of the more important things to remind people of is you don't have to have like a
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  Jerry Maguire moment where you like write a manifesto and quit your job like I did the
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  next day.
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  You can keep your job and start your side hustle and get that going until you feel
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  comfortable enough that like maybe it never takes over.
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  Maybe it's just a side hustle.
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  Maybe it's just hanging Christmas lights and doing things like that.
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  But it could be.
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  You start building more money.
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  Yeah, you start building that entrepreneur muscle.
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  Yeah, exactly.
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  And then you get to a point where you go, oh, I could, I could, you know, clear people's
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  driveways, you know, snow plow people's driveways in my neighborhood and do that.
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  And I probably will.
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  Or I could also do that, but hire the kid next door to actually do it for me and
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  pay him.
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  And now I got a snow plow business, you know what I mean?
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  And so like there's, there's, it becomes a bit like you, some people need to have
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  permission.
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  Don't need permission to do just.
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  They feel like they need permission.
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  Like, so let's give them permission.
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  Yep.
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  To start their own things, to have their own.
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  You know, you talk about it being like a risk to be an entrepreneur.
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  No, it's a risk to work for the man and have them wake up one Monday morning
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  and decide that you don't work there anymore.
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  That's the bigger risk.
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  That was my second point I was going to make.
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  I stepped on your, on your second point.
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  That is the perfect example.
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  I've been saying that a lot where it's like, dude, up until, you know, this whole
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  time, maybe there was, there was an argument to be made there.
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  Like back in the, maybe in the 80s or 90s, when there was like not as much
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  access to technology and all this stuff.
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  But nowadays it's like unlimited, we have, we have the upper hand.
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  Like as people, the democratization of technology, it's all right there,
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  man.
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  It's, you have everything you need right now to do whatever you need to do.
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  And, and everything's, you know, tools, everything is like super cheap.
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  Anyway, so the whole point being exactly, yeah, like Charlie said, okay.
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  Yeah, it's risky to start a business and like kind of go all in on that.
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  But, you know, there's ways to do it responsibly while you're still working.
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  But I would say that not gaining these skills, not learning how to, how to
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  do sales or how to, how to get customers or how to make an offer,
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  bring it to the market, like learn just at least entertaining these ideas.
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  That's the high risk thing is not doing that because your job is not the safe move.
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  Like just relying on the whim of some corporate entity, whether or not like just,
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  like you're, you're basically a slave to their whim about whether or not they,
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  they want to give you money the next week or not.
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  Hey, thanks for watching that clip.
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  If you want to watch the entire video, it is available as well,
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  Thanks a lot.