A founder recalls hitchhiking through Central America and Iran with a hammock, sleeping rough and terrified each night. The brain screams with thousands of worries, whether you're surviving on the road or running a startup. But the speaker learned that things usually work out anyway.
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Before I was a founder, I was hitchhiking around the world with a hammock. I was hitchhiking through Central America, and I was hitchhiking from Germany to Iran, to Middle East, with a hammock and sleeping outside in the forest. Every night there's definitely some fear. Every day you have worries about who will pick me up, where will I sleep tonight, will I have enough food, will there be wild animals, will there something bad happen? There's so many worries in your head, like thousands of them. Your brain screams with worries. But most often next day you realize, okay, everything ended up well. I have the natural state state of a human mind would be hundreds of worries. What about this? What about this competitor? What about this person, Churnt? Or what about this bug here? Then the natural state would be you're just flooded with worries. Get more and more of this basic trust that in the end everything will be fine.