Matt Paulson regrets sacrificing fun in college to chase future success that arrived anyway. He argues people engineer their lives for vague long-term goals and miss the present. Casual coffee chats and everyday moments are the good old days, not something waiting ahead.
I've always appreciated your balance and your perspective because I've, um, the thing that I've been wrestling with over the years is like, how do I quit trying to overengineer the future and just play?
You know, I think people sacrifice too much for these like big long-term goals that may never come. Like, I think the good old days are today. Like, these are the good old days. Like, 10 years from now, I'm going to remember the day that I was on Ryan's podcast and Lunch and had coffee with a friend in the morning. And then like, like I would look back at that and like, that was the good old days. And like, that's today. Like today are the good old days. Like we're not, you, you like, when I was in college, like I sacrificed way too much for my future. Like I didn't spend any money, didn't have any fun. And now I look back and realize like there was gonna be plenty of money. Like I didn't have to sacrifice so much. Like, like there is something to be said to like, to live for today and like not to worry too much about the future.
