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How Do You Tell Who’s Actually Serious?
This is something I’ve wrestled with for years:
How do you tell if someone is actually serious?
I’ve spent decades in research. Every idea takes years—sometimes a decade—of grinding, failure, rejection, and getting back up. And yet most people don’t understand what that commitment really means.
The problem is cheap talk.
Most people say they’re passionate. They say they’ll do the work. But when the reality sets in—the loneliness, the rejection, the endless iterations—they vanish.
And here’s what breaks my heart: the few who stay, the few who actually care, are almost impossible to find…
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