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Mailbag! Beating Idea FOMO, The Best Stories for Founders, and Simple Startup Math
Today, we're digging into the mailbag to answer some common questions. We hit on how to actually commit to a startup idea when you aren't confident it'll work (featuring the Discipline + Strategy Levers), the most frequent advice I give (feat. Monkeys and Pedestals and Sell the Position), and a question on the startup decision - should you do a thing that'll take 10 years?
00:30 Mailbag
01:53 Question One: How to Commit to an Idea
03:57 Discipline - Levers and Hooks
05:42 Marathon Programs
11:30 Strategy - Where to Run
19:00 Smooth Jazz
19:21 Question Two: The Key Stories
20:22 Monkeys and Pedestals
23:00 Sell the Position
25:07 The $10K Prompt
25:53 Question Three: How Old Will You Be?