A speaker describes how daily disciplines like waking early, running, and avoiding social media create contentment that fuels everything else. His foam-party business Electric Flurry exploded at 21 but collapsed by 22, forcing him back to his mother's apartment. A well-funded startup that had just raised $10 million then approached him to sponsor his shows, even though they'd stopped.
It was learning how to be okay being bored and being alone and sticking to habits and disciplines. It was get up every morning, go for a run, live by yourself, don't use social media. It's really uncomfortable to do that. But if you could learn to have a level of contentment and joy with nothing, you bring that energy into everything else you're doing. When my first business imploded, I used to have a company called Electric Flurry. It was the world's largest foam party. And, you know, I did really well when I was 21. I lost all my money when I was 22. I moved back into my mom's apartment when I was 23, and I was in a really weird place because I had built all this success, but now I'm sleeping on my mom's couch. So I wasn't the person I thought I was. An opportunity came to me, and it was a startup. They had just raised $10 million, and they wanted to— they wanted to sponsor my shows, but I didn't have the shows going on anymore because my business failed.
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