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by chenxi9649 1187 days ago
I don't think you're the only one who's experienced this, but I think you're in the minority in realizing that you're experiencing this.

This thread has a lot of gold nuggets, but most seem to be focused on how to successfully start a company/follow through with an idea. While the more critical question seems to be your first question, whether you still want to be an entrepreneur.

For myself, I think it was important to realize that at the end of the day we are just all a bunch of monkeys who gained the ability to experience things, along with the illusion that we can alter this experience. That's all this is. We are just all trying to tickle our brains to feel better in one way or another.

Everything we are doing is for our own "experience". Some of us wants to make the world better because it makes us feel better that others are living a better life. Others might want to create impact because it feels good to be someone who've created impact. There is no absolute truth/reality. We are all just trying to make our experiences better.

All of this might sound obvious and even a little cynical. But it's given me a strange sense of comfort and helped me find "myself".

Also curious to konw if you've found the answer to your question since the time of this post!

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> All of this might sound obvious and even a little cynical. But it's given me a strange sense of comfort and helped me find "myself".

I don't think is not about being cynical. We are what we experience and for me at least is the only existence that matter. I want to make my day to day on this earth relevant and enjoyable and as for now entrepreneurship checks a lot of boxes, I also revisit this belief very often.

> Also curious to konw if you've found the answer to your question since the time of this post!

No, and I wasn't expecting/hoping to (probably only 1% of my was). What I was able to do today was to do more writing exercises using some of the content that was posted which lead me to:

What do I regret not doing? - Learn how to play music - Why am I not doing it? Because I feel I would take time from something more important?

Today I booked a music tutor. I guess I consider this as a win.