"Pinning it to a moment, I usually refer back to my experience of dropping out of university after the first month, as the moment when I first recognized I had a passion for entrepreneurship or at least for having a 'hustler' mindset, which is how I would have interpreted it back then," says serial entrepreneur Steven Bartlett, who dropped out of Manchester Metropolitan University in England at 18 and went on to become a millionaire in just five years.
"Succeeding in your career but failing in every other aspect of life is not success.
A key lesson that has taken me a long time to learn, and I wish I'd learned sooner, is that'success' at a fundamental level'is achieving balance.' For me, this is across emotional intimacy, the social connection and community that creates, my health (mind and body), and my professional ambitions.
Most of us will need our definition of'success' to fail us before we are able to reconsider what it actually is."
Bartlett, who's invested in more than 40 companies, is the founder of Flight Story and Flight Fund, co-founder of Thirdweb, a web3 development platform, and Until, a fitness marketplace.
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