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Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss the best approaches to developing a healthy lifestyle that ultimately helps you run and grow a successful startup. Take care of yourselves out there. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/DandM-apply Work at a Startup: https://yc.link/DandM-jobs Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - Introduction 00:35 - Plan for the punches 01:50 - Adulting harder 03:07 - Audit how you live 04:05 - Good & Bad Habits 07:23 - Information diet 09:22 - Salary bump 12:51 - Hard conversations 16:37 - Expectation setting 18:00 - Fight or flight 21:08 - Good R&R 24:59 - Healthcare 26:50 - Fatal punches
"let's examine the facts yes fact fact fact fact great you're fine yes however sometimes we look at the facts and you're not fine [Music] this is michael seibel with dalton caldwell in our last video w..."
"care there's preventative health care and then there's you know treatment so let's start with the preventative and let's set the set the framework here like a lot of times founders get punched in the ..."
"and it might turn out that if you want to be a founder of a very successful company you might have to adult harder than the people around you in fact it almost assuredly requires adulting harder than ..."
"you live like think about where you're waking up in the morning you know did you get enough sleep are you in a a place that's a home is it are you living in a place that makes you more powerful or les..."
"when someone is having issues the first thing you look at is sleep disruption diet and exercise right if you go if you go look at you know research depression or anxiety and things that's usually wher..."
"social media piece because i think that a lot of people don't understand how toxic social media it's like yeah i think i think you just want to look at your information diet the metaphor i think about..."
"salary um oftentimes and and this is more of course for companies that have raised funding just a a small incremental five or ten percent cal salary bump can make a huge lifestyle difference and and i..."
"hard conversations with your co-founders and for everyone to be okay afterwards um and everyone has to go through this and it's gonna suck but if you have some of those in the bag when you get punched..."
"expectation setting i think so much of life is expectation setting where setting expectations for yourself set expectations for people you work with about what to expect if you are good at that people..."
"the punch happens bam and you need some treatment something really bad happens or you suspect something really bad happens um i think the first point that you brought up that i really love is this ide..."
"okay to go home i think that you know there was one moment in my career where um we were gonna get bought uh socialcam was gonna get bought and we were two months into the diligence process and we got..."
"talk about mental health care for a second like you know this is this is becoming less of a controversial issue but i still think that it's something that needs to be normed more right yeah i mean the..."
"see we do with a lot of failure we deal with a lot of companies who fail and you and i have to have a lot of conversations with founders who their company has failed and their first thought is i'm a f..."