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Erik: How do you define and measure success in what you do?
Idan: I think that success should always be measured by the delta, between where you started
and where you are or where you started and where you wanna get to. It might sound a little
bit weird but, you know, in some ways, I do not envy people who were born, for instance,
into money, for them, it will be extremely hard to measure their success, it will not—'cause
the usual—one of the most common ways that we measure success is by wealth. And for them
it will be extremely hard to kind of create even more of that, or even because—just
because they had the tools then it will be very hard for them to justify what they managed
to accomplish, because they started off from a very good starting point. And especially
they started off from a starting point where it's very hard to fail, or failure is not
too painful. So I think that for most people, success is much more about the delta, so it
doesn't matter where you are, it matters where you are—where you got from to where you
are. So for me, every time I try to measure myself, like 3 years ago, or 5 years ago,
where was I and where am I now? I can kind of—then looking at that, where can I be
in 3 years? I really try not to plan, where do I wanna be in 3 years, I have a lot of
dreams, but it's never—it's never actually the path that I'm going to take. Because I
just think that planning is useless. I think that today's life, people try to plan a lot,
and I think that something even about this, you know, this conversation, it's about planning,
and learning from people and how they got there. And I think it's just useless. Develop
these dreams 'cause I think that the dreams are a very good preparation to actually being
able to make these steps. I think that I dreamt for a long time to move to New York, by the
time I was ready to make it, then, you know, in my guts that decision was already well
-- you know, kind of cooked already and ready and ripe to get done. For instance, me and
Christina are dreaming of moving to the countryside at some point, you know, yes, it might happen
in a few years, maybe it wouldn't happen, but just by talking about it, and we constantly
talk about it, I think we're kind of preparing something in our guts. But at the end of the
day, all this planning is completely useless, because there's so many other factors that
are gonna happen and change that -- those decisions, so it doesn't matter. Just try
and always fantasize about a lot of things that you wanna do. And then, that will kind
of guide you to where you'll end up. That's how I see it.