Adam Rossi’s Post

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You often say to young people, there are billionaires out there who would trade all their money for your health. For those entrepreneurs or parents, how do you make mental and physical health a priority? Yeah, this is a big issue for me and when I invest in startups. I really talked to the founders about protecting and guarding their mental and physical health. And when you're young, you feel like that is not important. I certainly abuse myself working 20 hour days, getting 4 hours a night for sleep, not exercising. And I started getting weird health issues where I would, I got shingles in my face when I was 2425. So, you know, very early on there were a lot of stress related maladies that were not easy to diagnose, like back pain. You know that that when my stress went away, it went away. And so I tried to tell folks, look, I got lucky. I was able to turn it around before it became diabetes, high blood pressure. And so I try to get that message out there. I would have much rather if I had to do it all over again, Take the time every morning and tell my team. I, I work out with a personal trainer. You'll see me at this time every day because I, I will go to the gym. I could have easily done that. I didn't give myself permission at the time. A lot of people have worked themselves into the ground and now they would, to your point, trade all the money back just to have a day where they weren't paying miserable, right, Just get their health back. So we have to guard it. The mental aspect, one that probably isn't talked about enough, but I think stress is a real, real poison in our system, mentally and physically. So managing stress through exercise, yoga, sauna, you know, I mean, that to me, I think is also something that we need to be talking to founders. And people that are working these professional jobs that are so grueling. You know, take care of yourself. Give yourself permission to do this.