Chase Fisher delivers a first-person monologue on a YouTube clip describing a highly stressful day—multiple personal and business problems, long calls, and little food—during which he almost gives up but decides to push through. He describes using stimulants to cope, frames the sequence of problems as a test, and argues that a deeply felt emotional 'why' is essential to prevent quitting and sustain entrepreneurial persistence.
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My mom called me with a problem, my girlfriend called me complaining. One of my businesses isn't gonna get one of the posts out tonight. I've had one meal, my business partner's having problems. Three hours straight I'm on calls and things aren't going well. People are complaining and I wanted to give up so bad for the day. I just want to sit down and say I'm not feeling good, I'm feeling scarce, I'm feeling like I don't have a ton. But what would I be if I just sat there in my bed and said, you know what? I'm done for the day, Fuck all these problems, said I'm done. But instead I got up, popped a white monster, got a neuro gun in my mouth, I feel better than ever. And it was so obvious that this was a test. Problem after problem after problem, like six problems in a row. And I was naive enough to think that this wasn't a test. This might sou sound crazy, it might sound psycho. I'm just getting tested and more problems are going to keep coming up and I'm just going to keep handling them. The rest of the day is going to be a battle. I might be up until 4am handling all these problems. But you know what? I'm grateful I get to do it because I know in the end it's all going to work out. I can handle all these problems and it's probably things that I've caused and that I can fix. But it all came back to my emotional why? Why do I even do this in the first place? That why that you have is not something that is emotionally connected to you and that really makes you emotionally tick. Feels like your whole life is falling apart. That why doesn't come in to save you. You are giving up. If you know why you even started trying to do something hard in the first place. Nothing, and I mean nothing, can make you give up. So focus on, focus on the why. Because if you don't know why you're doing when something gets even moderately uncomfortable, you are just going to give up.
