Insight
Perez: Founder focus allows adaptability, whereas obsession restricts flexibility
“Part of being a founder is adaptability. You have to be able to adapt. You can have a clear goal, but if you need to shift things to actually, like, be able to make a return to your investors, to be able to actually, you know, hire more people or really produc…”
Insight
Perez: Initial emotional impulses are childhood defense mechanisms, not authentic reactions
“That the first impulse is the real you, and it's not. The first impulse is your defensive mechanism that you learned probably when you were a child.”
Opinion
Perez: Meditating daily is a better life investment than the S&P 500
“When people ask me, like, how can you put so much time into meditating? I'm like, it's a better investment than the S&P 500. Like, it's a, and it's an investment that gives massive returns.”
Opinion
Perez: AI merely reorganizes past information, limiting its capacity for genuine innovation
“I think a lot of AI, it's just re-scrambling what's happened in the past, so it's hard to get innovation from that, whereas that's the beauty of the human mind.”
Insight
Perez: Online creators have barely half a second to provide value
“Because, especially if you're sharing something online, you have barely half a second with an individual to really give them something of value.”
Opinion
Perez: Past trauma acts as the driving force behind many successful founders
“I think a lot of successful people are driven by their past trauma”
Insight
Perez: Ego manifests as mental clinging, while intuition provides calm physical signals
“Your ego is snappy, and it's loud, and it's more mental. It's like, you know, try, and you can feel that energy of clinging, like, It really wants something, whereas intuition, especially for me, feels much more bodily.”
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Perez: The saturation of AI creates a premium on in-person connection
“There's so much AI that it is, it makes the interaction of, like, actually coming together as a virtual community, it's, there's, you have to, like, jump over that to be able to actually interact with real human beings, that it's gonna create a new premium on …”
Insight
Perez: Writing is fundamentally clear thinking that creators must not outsource
“Writing is like, just, it's just so critical, because it's one of the ways that you practice clarifying your thoughts, like writing is like really clear thinking, so you can't like take that exercise away from yourself, especially as like a, you know, a creato…”
Insight
Perez: Letting go of emotional pain requires repeated practice
“The act of letting go is healing, but it doesn't mean it's a one-time event. You may have to let that same thing go over and over again because the mind is malleable, but it requires practice.”
Disclosure
Perez: Wisdom Ventures raised a $10M Fund I and $77M Fund II
“We started a venture capital company called Wisdom Ventures, and it's been successful. You know, we've we had a, our first fund was ten million, our second fund, seventy-seven million, and we've invested in great companies that are really trying to scale welln…”
Insight
Perez: Single social posts do not make or break creative careers
“So now when I put something out, I know that one piece, one post, is not going to make or break anything. Anything. It's a long game of stamina. Well, where it will accumulate into something bigger over time. So if one thing fails, it doesn't matter at all.”
Disclosure
Perez: Releasing essays at 80% completion tests audience resonance for books
“When I try to, especially if I'm releasing an essay, I try to get it to 80%. If it feels like it's 80% of the way there, it's good enough, and if it's good enough and people really resonate with it, then maybe that can become a chapter in a future book.”
Insight
Perez: Convenience apps create unrealistic expectations for frictionless relationships and lives
“If you look at your phone, every single app on your phone is trying to make your life easier. How can I get this food to you faster? How can I give you a ride from, you know, point X to point Z? How can I just make, simplify your life as much as possible? And …”
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Perez has spent more than a cumulative year in silent retreats
“Actually, this year when I finished the 60 day retreat, I looked at my, the course, sort of all the courses that I've sat, and I've realized that I, if I take all the retreats that I've sat, I've spent more than a year of my life in silent retreats.”
Disclosure
Perez: Sober meditation is preferable to psychedelics for observing true reality
“And I've tried psychedelics, I've tried a bunch of different things when I was younger, and it's great. I think, you know, for some people that gives them tons of value, for me, I'd rather observe reality as it is.”
Disclosure
Diego Perez has meditated for two hours every day since 2015
“So I meditate two hours a day every day. I've been doing that since Twenty-fifteen. Started meditating in twenty-twelve, but then twenty-fifteen when I, was when I started meditating daily, and.”
