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I was having dinner with a friend the other night who comes from a very established family, multi-generational wealth, and he said something that stuck with me.
"I envy the hunger you have. I don't have the same drive as someone who had no other option than making it."
I thought about it for a second and told him I envied his patience because he’s able to think in 10-20 year time horizons and evaluate risk using mental models.
I don’t have that same ability because I wasn’t raised in a similar environment to him.
I’m new money so I have the drive, the aggression, the energy that comes from knowing there's no safety net. The only problem is that there’s no one to lean on when things start working, no reference points for what the next stage should look like.
He’s old money so he has the mental models, the long-term thinking and the patience but not the same fire
If you’re able to combine both, the hunger of new money with the patience and long-term thinking of old money, that's when things really change.
I've personally spent the last few years deliberately trying to learn from people who think in decades, not months. It's probably the single biggest unlock I've had since starting.
Work like new money, think like old money.
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