Bill Gurley: 6 Out of 10 People Are Making This Mistake

If you're crafting your own personal career and you're high agency, AI is like a jack pack. We've taught children, young adults, how to grind. We've taught them to persevere for the sake of perseverance. And if you're stuck, you're stuck. In order to, like, do these exercises of finding your passion, you sort of have to be like a ruthless asshole, you think? Unless you're trying to find that edge, somebody else maybe. You have to understand the difference between risk and uncertainty. People most at threat by AI are the ones that aren't continuously learning that are just doing the same thing they did ten years ago. How many times when you're doing it did you wanna quit? I don't ever remember wanting to quit. Really? Really. What did the voice say when it was like I found my calling? I wanna talk about the book because there was this there's a bunch of crazy stats in the book. I wanna talk about the Nobel laureate thing. That was interesting. But the craziest like, one of the craziest things early in the book, I think did you run this survey? And it said that, like, six or seven out of 10 people hate their job. Yeah. So I had a cowriter, cowresearcher on the book, and we spent a ton of time together on Zoom calls. And someone encouraged us to dive into a bunch of academic literature. We came across this Gallup poll that said 53% of people aren't engaged at work. And so we had this idea to ask, like, a thousand people if you could start your career over again, would you do it differently? And and seven out of 10 said yes. And then we we took that to to Wharton People Analytics to do the official academic version so you make sure you get all the statistical data correct. And their their number came back six out of 10, so still a really big number. And Crazy. There's a great book by Daniel Pink called The Power of Regrets. And he has a somewhat similar survey data of longitudinal through people's lives. And as you get older, you your regrets of inaction start to really weigh on you and ruminate in your brain. And a regret of inaction is is Tuesday actively not doing something versus a regret of action is I made a mistake. And humans are really good at allowing themselves to make a mistake, but the path I never traveled, the door I never opened is heavier in their mind. And it the survey might have been getting at that, like, people thinking, wow, what if I had done something differently? Well the reason I was asking is like I kind of want this whole like I'm kind of obsessed with this idea of finding your passion not just because of your book but like one of my favorite books is mastery by robert green yes I've never heard which …