Gurley asked himself if he saw himself doing computer engineering in thirty years, triggering his career shift.
“I was going home at night and studying something different. And I asked myself that question, do I see myself doing this in thirty years?”
Gurley used the thirty-year test again on Wall Street, walking through senior offices at 10PM.
“I paused in each one of them and said, do I want to be here thirty years from now, like in that office? Assume I do great, but I've done this my whole life.”
“And I paused in each one of them and said, do I want to be here thirty years from now, like in that office?”