Corelli: People stuck in victim mindsets are committed to unsolvable problems
Calvin Correlli · Emotion is a superpower: how I leveraged mine to drive $5m in revenue · Jun 23, 2023 · at 10:52
Calvin Corelli, founder of Simplero, addresses founders at the SaaS Open conference on overcoming internal emotional barriers.
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“When you're stuck in victim, what you're committed to is having unsolvable problems, so fuck anybody try to fucking solve that problem for you, Because you're hooked into this idea that this problem is intractable.”
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