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kevin
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I think I've casted about this a couple of times, but the past year has been verrrry interesting for me. Want to write out everything that went through in my head in retrospect so I can help someone in a similar situation tl;dr: live in the moment, make good habits, meet cool people, gg
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For context: my whole life I've always been focused on the next thing: "I need to get a A on this test" -> "I need to complete this project" -> "I need to find a job" -> "I need to move to SF" -> etc This mindset has been great in the past, but I think it became a bit too much for me at a certain point
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Around a year ago I moved to SF and got a small corner room in an apartment right across from the panhandle, pretty quickly I got a group of friends, and was overall settling in pretty well I never really gave myself time to slow down though, so feelings of inadequacy started settling in
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I think part of this was I had major imposture syndrome, but also part of it was I didn't do the small things to take care of myself In hindsight at first these things were very small, like I slowly stopped working out, but started to spiral over time at a certain point I had no patterns, no traditions, no routine
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these things are in my opinion all very crucial if you want to do anything entrepreneurial 99% of the things that happen to you are out of your control, do the 1% that is in your control
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If you don't do the 1%, it becomes a lot harder to believe in yourself, if you can't believe in yourself, why would a vc/co-founder/employee believe in you?
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anyways around a year later now I'm roaming around the country for a bit, but am missing SF very badly Compared to a year ago, here are some differences that I see in myself now:
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