Speaker A ditched video games and a wall TV to focus on meaningful work, driven not by admiring others but by fear of ending up in a life they don't want. They use the image of a tiger chasing them to explain how that fear of an unwanted future actually accelerates action and beats procrastination.
But that's essentially why I got into the work that I'm doing and why I took this path instead of, like you said, playing video games. I used to have a TV on my wall, and when I first got into this space, I took the TV off my wall, I put my video games under my bed, and I haven't seen them since because I've just been so committed and really intentional about the impact I want to have.
And who inspired you? What's the inspiration? I think you have motivation for sure, right?
That's something people ask me often, and I always go back to when I first got started, I wasn't thinking about any role models. It was just more so I don't want the life that I'm living. And so a lot of people, you think of it like if there was a tiger running after you, you're going to run a lot faster if something's running after you rather than if you have something to move