This Cab Driver Built a Global Tech Company, Here’s How He Did It

Companion to the MaxLife episode with Sunny Kaila

Sunny Kaila drove a New York cab at night to pay for college by day, and built a global company on one habit: give up something now to go up later, and live by design, not by default.

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The Easy Road

Sunny's friends told him to skip college and just buy a gas station, the safe, known path. What's the comfortable, expected road in front of you right now, the one everyone would understand if you just took it?

What You'd Give Up

Sunny's rule was give up to go up: he traded taxi income for four years in school. To get where you actually want to go, what would you have to give up now (money, comfort, status, the fun option)?

To go up, the thing I'd have to give up right now is ___.

Whose Limit Is It

Sunny says some things are out of your hands, but at least half is in your control. Take the thing holding you back and split it honestly into the two columns below.

Genuinely not in my control

Actually my choice

Create, Don't Complain

Sunny's line is don't complain, create. Take one thing you've been complaining about lately. If complaining were off the table, what would you build or make to deal with it instead?

One Choice, By Design

Sunny says live by design, not by default. What's one small, specific thing you'll do this week that you'd pick on purpose, the give-up-to-go-up choice, instead of defaulting to the easy road from 01?

Sunny says at least half of everything is in your control. Look at what you wrote in 05. That's the part that's yours. The village you came from, the genes, the timing, none of that is the question. The only question is what you'll do with your half.

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