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Stop Treating Your Passion Like a Reward You Have Not Earned Yet · Afzal's Reset Entropy Podcast

0:01
SPEAKER_00: I want to challenge something today that most business advice gets completely backwards.
0:13
SPEAKER_00: The idea that passion is something you earn that it it's a reward waiting at the end of the financial stability that responsible entrepreneurship means building first and doing what you love later.
0:38
SPEAKER_00: I was the one who used to give this advice.
0:41
SPEAKER_00: I am the one who have heard this advice.
0:45
SPEAKER_00: I have given versions of this advice.
0:50
SPEAKER_00: And now I believe it is one of the most expensive lies in the entrepreneurship space.
1:00
SPEAKER_00: Your passion is not a luxury, it is not a reward, it is an anchor.
1:11
SPEAKER_00: And when you build without it, you are building on sand.
1:20
SPEAKER_00: Everything looks fine until the first storm hits.
1:56
SPEAKER_00: Come up with an idea upon it is very different for something you love passionately.
2:16
SPEAKER_00: In those cases, you put down your all of your might down because you know there is no other option out there, and that's the only option which you have in your hand.
2:38
SPEAKER_00: In that scenario, you might be able to recover it, but still it will always be on sands.
2:49
SPEAKER_00: Everything looks fine, like I said, until that first stop.
2:56
SPEAKER_00: After that, let's say you save it also, but you might start feeling resentment towards the work, resentment towards the people, towards a partnership, towards the work, towards the structure, towards the hierarchy, towards the system, and the list goes on and on.
3:21
SPEAKER_00: Let me explain what I meant by anchor before.
3:26
SPEAKER_00: An anchor is not decorative, it is functional, it is the thing that keeps you in place when everything around you is moving, when revenue drops, when the partnership breaks, when a launch fails, when the algorithm changes of meta, and you have to reconfigure everything, and your reach collapses overnight.
3:57
SPEAKER_00: There are many things like that, but without an anchor, every storm becomes an existential threat to your whole self.
4:10
SPEAKER_00: You start questioning everything, you start questioning your methodologies, your business, the niche, the direction yourself, and the questioning is exhausting, it drains energy you need for the rebuilding.
4:41
SPEAKER_00: But when you have that anger for me in this research entropy is to help people that anger is there.
4:56
SPEAKER_00: You show up daily.
5:16
SPEAKER_00: I did that.
5:20
SPEAKER_00: I didn't have any need to but I did that.
5:25
SPEAKER_00: I had to do it because that anger made me do it.
5:32
SPEAKER_00: The love towards this whole system made me do it.
5:39
SPEAKER_00: And I'll do it even further every step, every question, every help that will be needed.
5:53
SPEAKER_00: I will go and do anything in my power to do that.
6:01
SPEAKER_00: Because once you get that ang anchor, you know, with genuine passion under that work, the storm is like still hard.
6:14
SPEAKER_00: But the question of whether to continue never arises.
6:21
SPEAKER_00: In fact, when the challenges come, you are there with your eyes wide open, ears fully open, and analyzing what this challenge is actually teaching me and what direction the universe wants me to go in.
6:44
SPEAKER_00: And it's funny, you know, I never had this kind of feeling when I was doing my previous work.
6:53
SPEAKER_00: Even though I was getting a lot of money from it.
7:37
SPEAKER_00: Not from fear of failure, but from commitment to the thing itself, commitment to you, commitment to a passion, to your anger, to actually making a change.
8:03
SPEAKER_00: I see this distinction every week on Clarity Calls.
8:08
SPEAKER_00: Two founders can have identical external situations right there on the call, but you know, like same revenue plateau, same team fiction, same irritation, same market challenges, but one of them is anchored and one is not, and the difference in how they navigate the same challenge is night and day.
8:38
SPEAKER_00: I even come across a founder in my recent times who I had invested also with.
8:52
SPEAKER_00: But I saw the fading of that person throughout this founder journey, and that was something before I'd started reset.
9:08
SPEAKER_00: That person was on point and I could tell there was nothing in his way that could budge him.
9:19
SPEAKER_00: But how his trend of life and things around him took him outside of that main goal he had.
9:30
SPEAKER_00: Changed everything for him.
9:34
SPEAKER_00: And resulted in nothing.
9:38
SPEAKER_00: All of the hard work, all of everything.
9:44
SPEAKER_00: Money?
9:45
SPEAKER_00: Yes, that person made decently.
9:50
SPEAKER_00: But money is not the factor here anymore.
9:55
SPEAKER_00: Could have made ten x hundred eggs easily over there more than what made.
10:01
SPEAKER_00: But the whole idea, the passion of the project, everything went down the drain.
10:16
SPEAKER_00: The anchored founder always treats the setback as data, like I mentioned before.
10:26
SPEAKER_00: What is the showing me?
10:28
SPEAKER_00: What needs to shift?
10:29
SPEAKER_00: Let me adjust and continue with calmness.
10:35
SPEAKER_00: Analyzing, implementing, waiting.
10:51
SPEAKER_00: Maybe I was not cut out for this.
10:53
SPEAKER_00: Maybe I should pivot.
10:56
SPEAKER_00: The self-doubt questions are the most nonsensical thing that could be done in situations like that, and believe me that ruins everything.
11:12
SPEAKER_00: One question on self-doubt, and it's game over.
11:50
SPEAKER_00: So, why founders abandon their anchor?
11:56
SPEAKER_00: So many founders end up building businesses disconnected from their passion.
12:02
SPEAKER_00: I see three reasons.
12:03
SPEAKER_00: Reason number one, they were told to be practical, follow the money, build where the market is, do not chase what you love, chase what people will pay for.
12:15
SPEAKER_00: And this advice has enough truth in it to be dangerous.
12:22
SPEAKER_00: Because yes, passion alone does not build a business.
12:26
SPEAKER_00: You have to do a proof of concept, you have to do test and trial the market and everything.
12:31
SPEAKER_00: But passion plus skill plus market need is the most sustainable combination there is.
18:24
SPEAKER_00: At crazy amounts.
18:32
SPEAKER_00: So say getting money is not the hard part, that's just an idea.
18:38
SPEAKER_00: But the bigger picture is what do you want to do?
18:44
SPEAKER_00: Coming from the true identity, not the masked identity.
18:50
SPEAKER_00: And if you're building something right now that feels disconnected from what you actually care about, this is worth sitting with today.
19:02
SPEAKER_00: Not to abandon what you have built, but to ask honestly, where is the anchor?
19:09
SPEAKER_00: Is it here?
19:11
SPEAKER_00: Can it be brought in?
19:13
SPEAKER_00: What would this business look like?
19:15
SPEAKER_00: If it was built around what you are genuinely here to do, just imagine leave everything right now, just imagine that feeling that feeling that you must have built something out of the true passion and how to serve you, serve the society, serve everyone around you.
19:45
SPEAKER_00: Those are not small questions, those are the most important ones a founder can ask.
19:52
SPEAKER_00: I explored this directly on Clarity Call 30 minutes free.
19:56
SPEAKER_00: You bring the business, I help you find where the anchor is or where it went.
20:01
SPEAKER_00: DM me call on Instagram at reset and rupee or book through the link in the bio.
20:07
SPEAKER_00: I will see you Monday next week.
20:09
SPEAKER_00: I am going into a law of echo how your inner world shapes your outer reality, and specifically what that means for the result you are getting in your business right now.
20:22
SPEAKER_00: That one is going to reframe a lot of things altogether.