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> Yes, the vague idea that we can win the hot chick will drive many, many long dark nights of building a company. If this qualifies as your motivation criteria
by aashay 15y ago
> Yes, the vague idea that we can win the hot chick will drive many, many long dark nights of building a company.
If this qualifies as your motivation criteria for building a company, you're most likely in it for the wrong reasons. There's a difference between taking "the enormous energy available as the sex drive and convert[ing] it into useful work" and letting your sex drive be a motivator to your success.
- jtheory 15y agoMaybe there should be more emphasis on the word "vague", there. There's definitely a link between my own motivation for success and my sex drive, even though I'm very happily married and am way, way off the market. I want to be wanted even though I'm unavailable, I suppose, and I'm quite happy to be wanted by people who are unavailable to me, by extension. This is not driving a motivation for "success" in monetary terms, btw; it's a drive to become more of a person I would admire, and (by extension) a person that others would admire and desire. Part of that involves NOT being the sort of person weak enough to cheat on his wife, interestingly enough. :)