The person who fears losing the most is not the person who has nothing.
It is the person who has everything.
Think about that for a second.
When you are at the bottom, trying to climb, you are not afraid of falling. You are just focused on the next step—the next rung. The only direction that exists is up, and so that is where all your energy goes. There is a clarity in that—a kind of freedom in having nothing to protect yet.
But then you start climbing. And something shifts.
The higher you get, the more you have to lose. The more you have to lose, the more afraid you become of going back down. And suddenly, the climb that once felt like pure momentum starts to feel like something heavier. You are no longer just climbing toward something. You are also running from the thought of losing what you have already gained.
And here is the other thing.
Once you get what you were chasing, you want the next thing. The finish line moves. It always moves. So you are never really arriving anywhere. You are just chasing, gaining, fearing, chasing again. On a loop. Indefinitely.
I saw a video that made me think about how much of our lives we spend in this cycle chasing, gaining, protecting, chasing again. And I realized something sitting with it.
That is not the point.
The point is to enjoy the climb itself. To find something you love doing so much that everything else — the wins, the recognition, the results — becomes a bonus. Because if you are already happy while you are climbing, if the climb itself is the reward, then the fear of losing loosens its grip. What you gain along the way is wonderful. But it is not the source.
You are.
So ask yourself whether you are enjoying the climb? Or are you just chasing the top?
Because the top will always become the bottom of the next thing.
The climb is all there is. You might as well love it.
What I’m Reading
Crush It - Gary Vee (Reading)
I want to use this as a guide for building.
Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss(Reading)
I have been told this is a must-read for negotiating.
What Else Dropped This Week
Off Script
Why This Founder Refused VC Money & Built a Thriving Business | Susanne Mitschke
Under the Hood
The Attention Arbitrage Engine
Note to Self
Keep your blinders on.
Not because the destination is everything, but because the journey is. The climbing, the building, the figuring it out as you go. That is the achievement. Not the moment you arrive. The whole beautiful, messy, uncertain journey getting there.
Do what you love. Enjoy the climb. Let everything else be the bonus.
And when the fear of losing creeps in — and it will — remind yourself that you didn’t start this to protect what you have. You started this because something in you had to.
Keep going.
The journey is the point. It always was.
Be bold. Be real. Be Anomalous.
— Sai Menon
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