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The Hidden Costs of Hobbies and Side Projects
How your hobbies and projects may be keeping you from achieving your dreams
“You have to sacrifice in life, or your life will become the sacrifice.”
- Anonymous
In 2020, YouTuber Alex Becker sold his multi-million dollar mansion, Lamborghini Aventador, and all his other trappings of extreme wealth to move into an empty condo and furnish it with only a standing desk, office chair, and bed.
His reason was simple: owning all that stuff was a huge distraction from growing his software company. Even though he had the multimillions needed to hire staff to care for his mansion and property, he still had the headache of making sure staffers arrived on time, signing off on paperwork, and managing the estate, which often took up hours of his day every day. So he decided fuck it and sold it all.
In his newly empty house with nothing but his bed and his desk, it’s extremely easy for him to do what matters most to him — work on his company — because there’s just nothing else for him to do.
Watching him talk about why he did what he did, I had an epiphany. Despite not being a multimillion-dollar entrepreneur with a mansion and a fleet of sports cars, I was doing the same…