Transcript
A (0:00)
Welcome back to work. I'm here with Suhan. This is underlined, which is part of the Work podcast. And in these episodes we take a quote and discuss what it means, what we think about it, how we apply it, all sorts of good stuff. So Suhan, I'm going to kick it to you for the quote.
B (0:25)
In this episode. The quote we're going to over is going to talk about short term problems versus long term problems and why endurance is technically more important than brilliance alone. And the quote is the trick in any field, from finance to careers to relationships, is being able to survive the short run problems so you can stick around long enough to enjoy the long term growth. And it comes from one of my favorite authors, Morgan Housel Psychology of Money. This is from his book Same As Ever. He got a new book coming out soon. He's known as like the money writer, but to me he's more like a wisdom guy because everything that he writes in there is applicable to, from business to your personal life, to anything you got going on. So the idea here for me was, okay, how do you deal with tough times in business and in your personal life, at least in the short term so you can enjoy the essentially the fruits of your labor later?
A (1:19)
Yeah, I think I love endurance. I actually love the word endurance. Like endurance is a great word. Endurance and resilience kind of go together. And I think what happens to a lot of people is you're just capsized by like whatever, whatever is happening right now. And it's very easy to get capsized by whatever is happening right now because there's heavy things happening in your relationships, in your workplace, in your family, in your finances. Like all of it. Like there's, it's all mindset, I think really is that shit happens all the time, everywhere. Some shit is worse than others. But having endurance is important. Endurance is a mindset. Grit is a attribute and a benefit of having an endurance mindset, which is that you are digging it out because one, you believe something better. Like if not this, if not this, then something better. Two is you're willing to and you're tough enough to take on the hard stuff. I think three is that you understand that problems are persistent. Like problems, there's always going to be problems. And you know, I think for me anyways, like just thinking about my time at Food52, like, I think one of the things that was hard when I came in here is it was as though, like, you know, in your house when you have like the junk drawer or you have the like closet or like the junk closet. And like, you're just imagining it open in like a hockey stick and a baseball and a soccer ball and a mop. And like, all this stuff just come. Luggage just comes, like, falling out of it. I feel like this was a little bit of that. And I think it's easy. And I've definitely fell victim to this. It's easy to be like, I'm just gonna, like, shove it back in the closet. I like, not gonna deal with this right now. Shove it back in the closet. But. But the reality is, if you can sort your short term problems, there's a lot of benefit from that. If you have the optimism and the belief that by solving them, something better will happen. And if you don't fall victim to, like, this sucks, which solving short term problems can very much suck, then it helps you stay. It helps you have something left when you're done with that.