509: Questions to Ask Yourself During This Crisis

Everybody. This is Tony Afti. And this is Heaton Shah. And today on the startup chat, we're gonna talk about good questions to ask yourself during these uncertain times. I think we like talking about more than just sales and marketing. We just wanna bullshit and chat about business and life, and hopefully while we're doing that, provide a lot of value to people. The world's best business podcast. Oh. Oh, shit. We did it. For people trying to get shit and done. Yeah. We don't wanna give you feedback that's bullshit. And we want you to do your best. So I think this is a important topic. I will tell you why, and get personal, but we always get personal on this anyway. Mhmm. So I had a friend text me the other day, and he's like, text me something of the nature of, like, I don't know, man. I'm just tired today. He's, like, I feel like I'm tired every night. And it's, like, a a friend of mine that wouldn't tell anybody else that. And I texted him, and and I'm someone who really wouldn't tell anybody else that either. Yes. I'm sorry. I I told him, you know what? Me too. And then I texted him, and this was, like, the night before last, literally, like, very fresh. And I texted him last night, and I'm like, you know what? I feel the same today as well. And he's like, yeah. Me too. So he's someone like you, Steli, where it's like, I'll tell him I'll tell him anything privately, and, you know, we'll chitchat publicly sometimes and stuff like that. And, like, I understand where he's coming from when he says it to me because he's resilient. He's seen lots of different things in the past. Like, you know, it's like someone like you. Right? Like, we we just have this sort of common either experiences or way of dealing with the world. And so I've just been wondering, like, how do you like, of course, it's okay to feel that. But how do you, like, ask yourself questions to just recognize when you might just be exhausted and there's no good answer? Because I can't tell you why I'm exhausted at night. I he can't explain why he is either. And there's just a lot going on in the world. Yeah. It's interesting. It's not just a lot going on in the world in the abstract. I think that when you go through a time like this where anxiety is so universal and uncertainty is so universal, it's literally in every interaction. Like, it's in the hello, goodbye. It's in the you know, it's even in small interaction that seem harmless and positive. The underlying energy exchange between all humans right now in a very in a in a varying degrees is always no matter what we are saying, we're also probably are communicating. I'm kind of anxious. I'm stressed. I'm worried. I feel …