Reboot Podcast Episode #68 – Your Second Act – with Jason Jacobs

Top Quotes:

“My bias was always: company, company, company.  I thought: someone can look inside my head some other time.’” – Jason Jacobs

“I love entrepreneurship. But I didn’t necessarily do it in a sustainable way during my nine-year journey.” – Jason Jacobs

“The journey of creation is quite grueling, and doesn’t necessarily bring happiness along the way.” – Jason Jacobs

“It was the company at all costs over the last nine years, which is not healthy.” – Jason Jacobs

“Buried within the pursuit of happiness, is our own undoing, because the pursuit of happiness, leads us to create a sense of attachment.” – Jerry Colonna

“I almost actively stamped out joy during points of time building the company because I viewed joy as a distraction. I was maniacal about focus.” – Jason Jacobs

“I didn’t view joy as productivity-inducing.” – Jason Jacobs

“Some of our first models of “what does it mean to work” get formed in childhood as we’re watching Mom and Dad go off.” – Jerry Colonna

“The opportunity at midlife – in this second act – is to pull up the parts of you that are defining you and examine them.” – Jerry Colonna

“If you really want to be effective in inspiring that joy around other people, you have to allow yourself to inspire the joy within yourself” – Jerry Colonna

“My nightmare is having great professional success and looking in the mirror not being proud of who I see.” – Jason Jacobs

“The answer to the conundrum of fulfillment or happiness is actually integration.” – Jerry Colonna

“The people who are most trapped … are using external yardsticks to judge their self-worth.” – Jerry Colonna