Never Doom, Stay In the Game: Your Regular Reminder

It’s rough out there. Stock market and Crypto being super volatile. The Startup and VC investing world is getting hard. Let’s not talk about the craziness in Geopolitics and Global Macro right now. 

But I want to remind folks, you just have to grind through this. Surviving is thriving. I leave you with some very wise words from the gents at BowtiedBull:

"Every major success story is a case study in pain tolerance and conviction. Compounding only works for the few who stay solvent long enough to experience it. It’s the price of admission to the 1%. 

Most people can’t tolerate being underestimated or delayed. They need recognition and attention. So they cash out to scratch the ego.

They need comfort, so they give up options. They mistake motion for progress and validation for security. They exit the game voluntarily, right before it turns unfair in their favor.

The irony is that singular focus on survival/adaptability creates inevitability. 

If you stay in the arena long enough, the odds eventually tilt toward you. The longer you can withstand pain, boredom and obscurity, the more tail events you’re exposed to. Life runs out of ways to stop the man who refuses to leave.

If you’re in that grinding phase where nothing seems to click, that is entirely mental., If you’re making the right choices the momentum piles up silently. You’re not supposed to feel rewarded. You’re supposed to survive. 

Every month you stay solvent, every year you hold your ground, your probability of breakthrough rises. That’s the math of attrition.

People Hate Cockroaches and Yet They Teach a Valuable Lesson, Find a Way to survive"

(Source: https://bowtiedbull.io/p/getting-rich-is-a-game-of-attrition).

I leave you a BTB gem. Be patient & keep grinding. 

“The more you want results today, the less you’ll get. This is how lady luck works. The real skill you want is staying power. Stay at the table long enough and Lady Luck decides “huh this guy really doesn’t care guess i’ll give him this pot of gold”

Don’t blow yourself up. Don’t cash out of asymmetry too early. Don’t sell your future for comfort. Keep your burn low, your ego smaller, and your runway long. Because life doesn’t reward the smartest player — it rewards the one who makes it to the final table.”

Never doom. There is always a light at the end of the tunnel. You will get there. And when you do, it will all be worth it.