Barr: Founders Should Seek Emotional Extremes, Not Average Feelings, During Discovery
Jeremy Barr · Turn Your Self Audio Down and Watch Everything Change · Dec 5, 2023 · at 0:21
Jeremy Barr discusses founder alignment and personal discovery with host Sean Weisbrot on We Live to Build.
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“Feel where you feel really, really strong emotions and really, really negative emotions. And don't really go towards the things that are just like, ah, I feel average about it. You want to have really, really strong emotions for things that are really, really negative in a discovery phase. This is just human growth in general is you want to always go through discovery phase in life, then settle on something you feel really, really, really strong for.”
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