My good friend Collin West (Founder of Ensemble Ventures) and I talk a lot of about how the universe works. They are of my most treasured conversations where I have learned a lot. We actually have come up with commandments for if we do live in a simulation, but that is neither here nor there.
One phrase we say to each other a lot is “There’s no lion in the bush.” this phrase is both used to egg each other on, and to explain complicated points to one another. It’s almost comical how often we say it now.
We live at such an amazing time in human history: we live in a timeline where we have the privilege to talk about things like space travel, curing cancer, humanoid robots and networks states… yet I still feel that we as a human society come up with things to worry about. We bring up fears of disappointment, stress, career transitions… the list is endless.
Most of these worries are actually our own projections of fears that may or may not be true. Most people stop trying things before they ever begin.
There was a time, the lion was in the bushes. There is now no lion in the bush.
I find perspective when Collin says “There’s no lion in the bush” to me. It’s a way of saying, “what if there was no risk of failure, what is the best option?”
In our business, if you can invest without fear, you are free to invest the way you think you should, and that is the best way to invest.
So when making decisions in your day to day, or even investment decisions… remember — There’s no lion in the bush, and I hope it gives you the same perspective it gives me.
In other words ! Live without fear and see what the universe will behold. Every human can learn from this.