Q Can I ask you a question now, which is like amazing on him putting the 50 and you putting the three 90 and life savings in, it's a massive decision. How did your wife react and what did she say when you made the decision?
A I simply said, I'm going to do this for a year or two. If it doesn't work, I think I'll be not far enough removed from banking that I couldn't get back in if I had to. But in my mind, I was never going back. I was going to make that thing work. A lot of people ask for advice and things about leaving and doing it and stuff. You know, most people that are asking me are very marketable. They can get really good jobs and corporations probably better than they have when they left if they've got entrepreneurial experience as well. It's like, the risk is really just the money you burn in the period of time that you're away from it. You know what I mean? And so that's like very calculable, and it's a much smaller risk than it maybe appears. I wouldn't recommend putting your life savings in. But I would recommend putting enough money in so that you feel like it's life or death, because that's the only way to get into what I call the sixth gear. I think in business, people working really hard in banking, I was killing myself working 80, maybe even a hundred hours, some weeks, and I never really got out of fourth gear. I didn't know what sixth gear was, or even fifth. I was working really hard, and it's a different mentality, sixth gear. Sixth gear is literally life or death. You're able to do things that you didn't think were possible.
AI assessment note: “I simply said, I'm going to do this for a year or two.”