A Simple Explanation on Why FTX Went Bankrupt
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As crazy as things are right now, this is the perfect season to be a thermostat, because if you are acting like a thermometer, the market decides how your attitude is going to be. The economy decides how you come to work, how you treat people, and how you deal with your family.
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It doesn't seem like everything's changing so quickly.
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$32 billion, guy raised $2 billion, Sequoia, BlackRock.
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Next thing you know, they go down, Binance is not giving the money, the guy says, I effed
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up, and then they just resign and the company's not filing bankruptcy.
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It's probably the most unpredictable time in a long time where most things cannot be
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So in seasons like this, how should you and I react, okay?
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There's a whole concept of thermostat versus thermometer, okay?
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This morning, I'm working in my gym at the house.
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So by the whole floor is wet, because I'm sweating, and I realized the AC wasn't on
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So when we look at the temperature of the room, 82 degrees.
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I'm like, 82 degrees, six o'clock in the morning.
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Yeah, the thermostat constantly changes, right?
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This one had a thermometer because it's changing.
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One room's changing based on whatever the conditions are.
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The other room's like, no, if the conditions get too warm, we bring it to 72.
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If the conditions get too this, we bring it to 72.
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You're going to come at my pace because I control the pace, right?
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As crazy as things are right now, as insane as things are right now, the market with mortgage
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rates, with interest, with inflation, with economy, with election, with everything, this
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This is the wrong time to be a thermometer because if you're acting like a thermometer,
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the market decides how your attitude's going to be.
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The market's going to decide how your mood is going to be.
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The economy's going to decide how you come to work, how you treat people, how you do customer
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service, how you deal with your family, how you deal with your husband, how you deal with
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your wife, with your kids, with everybody around you because you're up and down, up and
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I haven't met many great leaders that are constantly up and down who do big things in
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So, choose a thermostat, choose a temperature you want to be at, and stay there.
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And don't let anybody around you change your temperature you want to be at.
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I didn't say it's easy, very, very hard to do, but if you do that, it's going to serve
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Anyways, if you got value from this message, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel.
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And if you want to go deeper on this topic, there's a video I shot two years ago called
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The Rules of Mental Toughness, if you've never seen it, click here to watch it.