Hey!
Do you still love the idea of programming/building stuff?
Was your successful startup the product you always dreamt of building? (Or at least you had other ideas you didn’t pursue)
Now that you don’t have the financial pressure and don’t need to associate with co-founders that may drive you crazy… why not start something just for you, just for the fun of it? Give yourself a couple of years to try and make it work. Committed, but without pressure from others.
I guess we all have those things that we would do “if I had the money and the time”.
:)
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#52Teach. Coach. Help people. For me, working with younger people who have ambition gives me joy and energy.
I am not well off. I don’t really “have time” to help people. But I do it because if I don’t the alternative is depression. If I am depressed I can’t work.
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#53Bored - not lost.
Try mentoring as you now have many skills that people would love to absorb!.
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#54When I feel that I have climbed to the highest peaks and I now stare into the limitless and desolate void, the choice is now whether or not to rejoice in the dance of life. Many have walked the same road and many plunge into the abyss of despair. For many others, including myself, it's a landmark or the continual scenery. For me, I don't believe there was a way back. I think it made me a different person. It was and…
Why is it for the best? Lonely feels right, even though by all objective measure I’m definitely not.
I have found myself as a new person with a new system of values and new interests and a great new outlook on life, yet the world around me has not yet shifted. It's my imperative to communicate my values with others and find others with common interests, and I either haven't done a good job of doing that, or my values and interests may be incompatible in general with others and society at large (or at least with my current social circle).
I value the existing people and relationships in my life, and that keeps me from changing too much and grounds me in reality and society, which is probably good for me and for society at large. I think that this sort of thing happens to everyone.
Maybe we strain against our harnesses and the web that we're in, and sometimes the web holds fast, or sometimes the network shifts and comes into new, better and more harmonious alignment.
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#55Passion isn't something that you just "have". It's something that you have for something. Your problem isn't that you don't have passion, it's that you don't have something to be passionate for.
Don't look inside yourself, trying to get the passion going. Look outside yourself for something that you care about enough to pour your heart into. (You don't have to feel that way about it on day one. But look for something that could at least grow into that.)