spend time with your friends and family. You're going to look back and see that over the long run, any time you that shortchanged from them didn't actually contribute to your success.
Yeah, you're probably right. And don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't spend any time with friends and family. (I do engage in a bit of hyperbole from time to time). But I have made a conscious choice to focus the majority of my energy on a particular path for the time being, in the hopes of achieving some things that are important to me.
Unfortunately, because I take the piss out of people and joke and exaggerate a lot, many people on HN probably think that my only motivation really is to drive a Maserati and have a 6' tall redheaded supermodel with a Scottish accent for a girlfriend.
Finding the right balance is tough, and like too many things in life, these situations are things where you don't get many (if any) "dry runs". You're learning on the fly as you go, hoping for the best outcome while being fully aware that you might be fucking the whole thing up. :-)
Ah well, that's what makes things interesting, I guess!
Yeah, you're probably right. And don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't spend any time with friends and family. (I do engage in a bit of hyperbole from time to time). But I have made a conscious choice to focus the majority of my energy on a particular path for the time being, in the hopes of achieving some things that are important to me.
Unfortunately, because I take the piss out of people and joke and exaggerate a lot, many people on HN probably think that my only motivation really is to drive a Maserati and have a 6' tall redheaded supermodel with a Scottish accent for a girlfriend.
Finding the right balance is tough, and like too many things in life, these situations are things where you don't get many (if any) "dry runs". You're learning on the fly as you go, hoping for the best outcome while being fully aware that you might be fucking the whole thing up. :-)
Ah well, that's what makes things interesting, I guess!