The best investors and business owners share one key trait - they think with a long-term mindset.
Unfortunately, business and life are reliably hard, so maintaining a long-term perspective is challenging.
So often in life, we think that if we can simply achieve X, then we’ll be happy.
If I can get the next promotion, hit the next revenue milestone, or better yet - exit my company for life-changing money, then life will fall into place and I’ll be happy.
This is almost never the case.
That’s right - the goalpost that so many founders drive towards - an exit - is actually not guaranteed to bring happiness.
I’ve really enjoyed reading a series of posts by Alex Leiberman, the founder and former CEO of Morning Brew.
In these posts, Alex writes about how dissatisfying life can be after an exit. Sure, life changing amount of money is… life changing.
Unfor…
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