Bigger Arenas

The most defining choice I made wasn't moving countries.It was joining a tiny company with a big idea, at a fifth of the salary I could have taken.

At the time, it didn't feel like ambition.It felt like curiosity.I wanted to see what would happen if I bet on the harder path. There's a rule you only learn by living it:

If you optimize for learning instead of comfort, the score eventually settles itself.

We opened a third office. I moved to a different country anyway.

Not because I chased opportunity somewhere else, but because we built it ourselves. Ambition is a moving target.

You solve problems you didn't know how to solve before, and suddenly you're surrounded by people who are also good at solving problems. What worked until now stops working. You have to get better.

Sometimes competition feels like erosion. Progress you fought for gets undone. You start wondering if maybe you got lucky earlier. But the reward isn't the status you gain.

It's the capabilities you accumulate. You realize you weren't drawn to winning.
You were drawn to getting better.

In the middle of uncertainty, you find your real advantage:
you are willing to choose the uncomfortable option again.

Each decision like that becomes a step into a bigger arena.
And in every bigger arena, you learn a bigger version of yourself.