A Game of Luck?

Well, I think a tremendous amount of luck.

We always forget there's such a luck factor in anything we do out there.

But I think the biggest credit, I'll give it to my dad.

So interestingly, in my early 20s, my dad was... a non-spiritual person, became Buddhist out of anything.

And so just at an age, 19 years old, where you're trying to figure out who you are, what you want to do, kind of introduced me to this concept.

And those became, after spending the first few years making my first companion things, You get really shaken.

Making companies is hard.

You get all the lemons in your face all the time.

It's a constant rollercoaster.

And I realized I really like that lifestyle of being an entrepreneur, of making my own things.

But I need a tool so that it's actually something that I can survive and not die.

And that tool came from Buddhism, which is the art of letting go.

Being able to be water at all points.

And not in a non-spiritual way.

I'm doing it in a very practical way.

If you're not getting this contract, it's okay.

it's actually okay, move on to the next thing.

This person that you like is leaving you because they have to go somewhere, it's okay.

And actually when the acceptance that any outcome is the right outcome, is a very liberating way to then giving you a chance to try and do anything.

You'll never get hurt.

You'll never get wrong.

Any outcome, even if it's not the one you wish it was, is the right one.

And this mindset really helped me make entrepreneurship a lifestyle that was not just a first person.

This first big video game company at first was very successful.

And then became dramatically dreadful.