I’ve thought a lot about the 10x opportunities I’ve had in my life and the not-so-good opportunities I’ve taken that mostly wasted my time.
It came down to me realizing that the 10x opportunities were those that I was extremely excited to get started with in the first place.
After reading Sam Altman’s How to Be Successful and other related texts where it’s about taking giant sized leaps when the time is right, I’ve noticed a framework called “Hell Yes or No.” Essentially, if an opportunity in any aspect of your life is a hell yes, then you should absolutely go ahead and do it.
However, if you’re on the fence and you’re thinking it’s a slight yes, then you should go ahead and say no.
It’s not worth the hesitation because for especially long-term decisions, you must be willing to stay with that decision for decades.
So if you’re unable to grapple with potential long-term commitment from the start, then don’t get started in the first place.
This applies to everything from a new job and meeting your friends to marrying your partner and taking on a new side project.
Now this framework works only once you’ve reached a base level of experimentation with lukewarm opportunities or environments.
These lukewarm or maybe even negative experiences will serve as a benchmark for what you know bad opportunities to be like but also what you need to avoid.
Everyone has to start off in this experiences because they help form a scale of which you can then hang off other experiences on.
We all only have a finite amount of time, mind power, and love to go around so we should make sure where we allocate these resources in the highest effective places possible.
Lukewarm opportunities and decisions will make up a lukewarm life - no one wants that.
Never settle for anything less than the things that excite you in every aspect of your life!