Thread: Here is the advice I once looked so desperately for, it is me talking to me.

If you are considering quitting your job, before you leave, take an absurdly long vacation. You will either come back determined to stay or be hell bent on leaving.

Hard work has a numbing effect on the sensory system. To restore your awareness of self and environment requires an extended time away from work. Try 2 months. Just get away. Maybe don;t take your family for the first half

You might have to one day leave your company when you have acquired enough of its insight, its intelligence, a comprehension of the total system view and its moving parts. If you can't get the market value for that, the choice may have been made, but by somebody else.

Do not evaluate a new company solely on the basis of your income potential. Consider it instead based upon equity, not just in the new company but a regained equity in yourself and your time and life.

This requires an honest assessment of ‘who you are’. You never had to do this when you were the superstar at your (old) company because they defined your identity for you.
The best advice I can ever give you, which is also me, is to retrain yourself.

epilog: What made you a great employee may also be your adversary. Your concept of the value of time and value has been warped. The brain is hardwired to resist change and a bad habit like the imperception of time may be irreversible.

When you are working for a company your time has been bought. The largest chunk of your day, and therefore your life has been rented by them. Its your body & mind but you have sublet it. Your company decided and conditioned what is and isn’t important, they prioritized your day.

Whether you stay or go, you have to regain your concept of time and its value. It will blow your mind and it’s very difficult. It takes immense discipline. But, I know you can do it. I keep a daily planner. But the best part is page 2...It's how i observe myself.

I adopted around 8 years ago, it's how i make behavioural mods. Ppl who love you can also give the worst advice, so i did it myself. This one is from 2012, I had just become a full time investor/venture capitalist. I've iterated it a 1m times, this one is always special for me

But wait, there's more. It's a bonus. This photo by @amivee = Saying goodbye to Sudan, the world's LAST male northern white rhino