you with the work you love to do. Instead, a startup provides the ability to create a vision you love and to see it through to fulfillment. You get to say “today, the world works this way, but once the company I’ll build exists, and once it reaches the scale to fulfill its ongoing mission, the world will change to this.” If you can reset your passion from “I want to do *this* work” to “I want to see something I create change the world in *this* way,” your expectations will align with reality, and the cognitive dissonance and frustration of being torn away from the work you love can fade. — 54: 720-724