Life Needs a Shakeup

When Silicon Valley Bank was imploding a few months ago, I caught up with a colleague from California whose company banked significantly with them. He was facing the prospect of losing his job.

His response: “I kinda hope things go south; life needs a shakeup.”

Beautiful. Embrace change. Trust that there is a plan and that you are doing everything you can to solve your mission in life.

If you don’t have a mission - search relentlessly for it. Your future self will thank you.

Teddy Roosevelt once said that those with privilege must live a strenuous life - for the greater good.

Mistakes and failure have often been the biggest catalysts for the mild success I have in my life.

Here is my ode to a lifetime of failures, successes, many lessons learned, lower lows, and higher highs.

Lessons for a lifetime:

• Be kind to others and reach out as often as you can
• Create something meaningful for yourself
• Don’t complain - Instead fix or learn
• Take more risks
• Fall in love with problems, ideas, and people as often as you can - you will learn
• Don’t be afraid to disagree - they will respect you more for it
• Spend more conversations asking questions - not stating what you know
• Proactively help others - karma will thank you
• Don’t expect people to come to you. They are busy. You need to reach out.
• Unrelenting curiosity (and execution) is the difference between zero and one