Jake has been one of the people that has helped me understand the benefits of betting on myself the most 

Grateful for the conversations we’ve had and continue to find insight in his writing 

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The main reason the burn time is worth it is that it allows you to follow your interests and it expands the surface area for opportunity (in terms of time) so that you can find a better next opportunity than if you were to constrain yourself to finding that next best opportunity in a month or whatever is typical.

The default of moving straight from job to job without any time in between makes sense in its origin, for people living paycheck to paycheck, but that is not the case for a lot of you, so it’s an arbitrary urgency.

Also, being in complete control of your time for a while helps you to assess your values. Rather than selling the majority of your time for best job you can find, by default, you might end up becoming interested in something less traditional, part-time work, trying to build your own business, etc.

Once you get a taste of owning your time completely, it is hard to give up.

Perhaps that is one downside. If you would rather have a more traditional career, unaware that an alternative exists, taking time for yourself will shatter that ignorance. This might sound sarcastic but I’m serious — there is some truth to the old saying that “ignorance is bliss”.

Nonetheless, I have no regrets. If you’re happy with where you are, you can’t have regrets. Anything you could have done differently would have led you somewhere else, so unless you want to trade your current life for an unknown alternative, no use in wishing you’d done one or two things differently. At least, not if you subscribe to the concept of the butterfly effect, which I very much do.

The most stark example is that if your parents’ parents’ parents’ parents’ parents’ x100 did one small thing a little differently you probably wouldn’t exist.

This was supposed to be a quote cast but draft bug got the best of me

This was supposed to be a quote cast but draft bug got the best of me 

https://farcaster.xyz/jake/0x70f05844