Simon: Decision-making is a process. The question is what filters are you using to make decisions?

Are you making decisions based on the financial rewards? Are you making decisions based on

how easy the work will be? I remember in college, they would give you this book where they --all

the students would rate the classes and they would rate things like how easy the class

was and how much they liked the professor. And, you know, the first year, I picked all

my classes based on workload, and I picked everything a low workload, you know? And pretty

bored, didn't work very hard, which was fine, but nothing was dynamic, and nothing really

excited me, and I, thank goodness, learned that. And so the second year, I picked all

my classes by professor rating, regardless of the workload, so every class I had, I had

these dynamic amazing incredible human beings passing on their knowledge and you were excited

to work hard for them. And so again, the question is what are the filters we're using, and so

if you're only chasing the mighty dollar, then you'll have jobs that'll pay you a little

more than the last but are you enjoying yourself? And I talked to a guy recently who was in

a—he's in bad shape like he really hates his life and he's really depressed, and he

doesn't know what to do. And so we're going through all his old jobs, you know, and I

said, give me a job that you've loved, and he hadn't, every single job he's chosen out

of college, he picked because of the money, and if something offered him more somewhere

else, he took it. You know? Regardless. And the amazing thing is he plateaued because

if you're only chasing the result, if you're only chasing the thing that makes it easy,

right? Then eventually you will get bored, or they'll get bored of you, right? And you

plateau. In other words, chasing the almighty dollar, if that's your only thing, it eventually

flattens out, whereas if you're chasing the thing that excites you, the human beings to

be around, the work that excites you, the stuff that you know, you can get passionate

about, the irony is, is you'll actually make way, way more, right? Because you're excited

and they appreciate your excitement and they reward your excitement, and you're better

at your work because you wanna work harder and all of that stuff. You don't have the

strain to work harder. So decision-making is simply a matter of filters. And so I've

made decisions in my life that I would rather be happy than right, I'd rather do good than

get rich. And so the decisions I make put me in positions where when I leave any engagement,

when I leave any meeting, I feel that I've contributed, right? Rare are the times any

more where you walk around going, just think of the money, just think of the money, think

of the money, because it doesn't feel nice. And the experience I have I don't enjoy travelling

to them and I don't enjoy travelling home, where if I have an amazing experience, I'm

looking forward to getting there and I'm excited when I leave. So it's just decision—decision-making

is just a matter of what filters you use, and if you're good about keeping those filters

up and clear then make your decision. I don't judge anybody by how—if they choose to use

different filters, these are just the filters I choose to live my life. Not right or wrong,

just those are my decisions. That's my filter.