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What Are You Willing To Endure?

Name: What Are You Willing To Endure?
Uploaded: 2025-08-13T00:00:46+00:00
Duration: 26 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this motivational monologue, the speaker argues that achieving larger financial milestones in one's 20s and 30s requires enduring proportionally…

13 Aug 2025 · 0 min

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In this motivational monologue, the speaker argues that achieving larger financial milestones in one's 20s and 30s requires enduring proportionally larger amounts of pain. The core claim is that the magnitude of the desired wealth (e.g., $1 million, $10 million) directly maps to the scale of hardship one must accept. The speaker further explains that the nature of this pain evolves as a business matures: early on it is the uncertainty of not knowing what to do, later it becomes the social pressure of judgment from others, and eventually it can manifest as legal threats such as lawsuits. Despite these shifts, a constant thread of uncertainty persists throughout every stage of entrepreneurship.

If you want to make more money in your 20s and 30s, solve bigger problems. If you want to make $1 million, you have to be willing to endure $1 million worth of pain. If you want to make $10 million, you have to endure $10 million worth of pain. The thing is, is the nature of the pain changes. In the beginning, the pain is, I don't know what I'm doing. Later, the pain is people judging me, and later the pain is lawsuits. And a lot of the pain is just not knowing what the hell you're doing at whatever stage of business you're at, because that never goes away.