A parent explains how having a child changed their approach to work. Instead of trying to muscle through everything alone, they now think long-term and focus on who they can delegate to or partner with. The shift toward strategic collaboration improved their business.
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Has your mental model on work and business changed in other ways since having a child? You think longer term when you have a child. And so you definitely have to think longer term as soon as you're a parent. And that's another thing that's good in business. I mean, I thought long term before, but having a child made me think even more long term. When I didn't have a child, my default response was kind of to think I could just do it. I could just assume the extra task. I could do this. I could basically just muscle through anything, right? Because I could just flex my hours or whatever. All I was doing was my— was working and I couldn't push anything around. But as soon as I had a kid, I started to be smarter in how I approached that. I thought, who can I partner with?