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The Quest Minutes: Amitt Mahajan

5 min readDec 16, 2020

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Introducing: Amitt Mahajan

Upbringing

“I think I was lucky — I found my passion very early in life, many people don’t find that.”

Hellish hordes from Doom.

The First Job: Epic Games

“These guys were are my wedding, I was at their wedding… And we knew we were building something awesome.” (Gears of War)”

A lasting classic.

The Beginning of Farmville

Early FarmVille team standup with Mark Pincus.

A Busy Few Days

Game of the Decade?
A young Amitt behind the scene.

Farmville: What’s Next?

“We talk about pushing ourselves, setting bars, and you end up realizing that those things set your narrative in a way that really kind of boxes you and becomes the source of your own judgement.”

“My entire sense of self worth was whether I could build another big product and get status.”

A Colored Reality

His co-founders were kind enough to offer to pay for Amitt’s therapy.

“As an entrepreneur or programmer, you are constantly looking for bugs, so you are tuning your mind to always see the broken cases. And you tend to push out everything that works well, because there is no need to focus on it.”

A Lesson in Gratitude

You can download the app Amitt uses at https://www.intelligentchange.com/pages/five-minute-journal-app

A New Focus on the Inner

“Your mind is almost like a puppy, it’s just like running around, trying to serve you, pissing on the carpet or chewing on your furniture. But ultimately it’s just a puppy, it’s off on its own, and sometimes you need to just let it tire itself out. Meditation is giving room for that puppy to run.”

“Normally, we are giving away our agency to other people. By accepting things as they are, we maintain agency.”

Parting Thoughts

Book Recommendations

“The more you see yourself as the next moment, rather than as collections of moments you had before, it allows you to free yourself from labels.”

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