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“If you're, like, working on a problem, nobody knows the toil.”

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I thought, man, this guy is really calm. Yeah. I'm I'm I'm calm. Yeah. So

I describe this way. Other very well regulated, very self aware, it seems. Yeah. Other people's emotions may go like this, like happy, sad, had I all feel happy, sad, happy, sad, but my amplitude Amplitude is very moderated. It's it's narrow. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So that's It just allows you to manage in many ways.

That means success is somewhat illusory. If you're, like, working on a problem, nobody knows the toil. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody really wants to hear about the toil. They want to have a very simple way of pointing to something and say, oh, wow. Look at what you have. Yeah. But if you're working and you have no time to enjoy it, nobody understands that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Okay. So you launch this thing. It's going bananas,

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Binance founder CZ discusses his unusually calm temperament and emotional regulation, explaining how success can be isolating when you're constantly working but have no time to enjoy the fruits of your labor. He reflects on how people see the results but don't understand the relentless toil behind building something massive.

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Offers rare insight into the psychological makeup of a billionaire founder and the loneliness of entrepreneurial success.

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