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That is the buoying effect of not quitting your job right away and having a fallback plan for when you do. It's not so that you'll have another way to do something new and possibly get rich. Rather, it's a way to have another shot at doing something you've already done before so that you don't go broke while you gather yourself to try again.

I asked myself, 'Do I want to do this the rest of my life?' And the answer came back: No.' And the corollary to that was, 'Well, if I don't want to do it for the rest of my life, I probably don't want to do it tomorrow."