Mehta: Making a major world impact highly correlates with being emotionally tortured
Nick Mehta · 20VC's Therapist Thursday: We Are Not All Crushing It All The Time So Let's Stop Pretending, Working Through Challenges of Self-Worth and Self-Doubt & How To Find Joy in the Striving with Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight · Jul 15, 2021 · at 32:58
Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight, reflects on the psychological burdens of high achievers and the relationship between internal dissatisfaction and worldly success.
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“A lot of the people that actually made an impact on the world Were incredibly tortured, and there's a high correlation, probably, maybe causation”
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