One Question Friday: Someone Stole My NFTs

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How To Make Money With What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. Talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said, you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's Podcast Network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales.
You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.

**Shaan Puri** (1:09)
All right, it's question of the week time, or one, what do we call it, one question Friday? I like that, all right, one question Friday.
Sam is traveling, so I got my boy Ben here, Ben Levy, not producer Ben, not powerful producer Ben. This is Ben Levy, the CEO of the Milk Road, and my business partner across my fund, and a bunch of other things. You guys hear me reference Ben a lot, but you don't even know which Ben, because I only deal with Ben's. So this is one of the Ben's. Ben, what's up, man?

**Ben Levy** (1:38)
What's going on? I'm riding high today.
Chris Paul and the Sons won by like 25 last night, so I've never been happier.

**Shaan Puri** (1:44)
This is true.
All right, so let's do this one question. I think we have an audio clip, right? Let's play the audio clip. I haven't heard this yet, so let's see what it is.

**Collin** (1:56)
Hey guys, my name is Collin. I just had all of my NFTs stolen today. So my question is, and I'm sure you've been through something like it before, when you get gut punched, has that happened to you?
What happened and how did you work through it?

**Shaan Puri** (2:17)
Oh man, I could feel the defeat. I could feel the pain in his voice there at the end. Thank you. That was a soul crushed thank you. Okay, so Collin, you got your NFTs stolen.
I feel for you. That's no fun.
I mean, it's a crime, right? Somebody came and stole your property. It's digital property, but a crime has been committed. So you gotta kind of separate.
Here's my kind of advice to you. Have I had somebody steal a bunch of my property before?
Not really, but there's different flavors of gut punch and I've had my share. So here's my kind of like formula for how to handle it. The first step is just be still.
And I mean this in kind of a Zen way, which is that, look, what's gonna happen for the next 24, 48 hours for you is your mind is gonna go to a bunch of different places. You're gonna get angry, you're gonna feel sad, you're gonna feel upset at yourself, you're gonna feel upset at others, you're gonna feel upset at the fact that you can't get it back. So you're gonna hate crypto, you're gonna feel a bunch of emotions by default. And what you wanna do is you wanna not just react, you wanna respond. So what's the difference between a reaction and a response? A reaction is what you do sort of right away, it's an impulsive thing.
And typically we don't love our reactions to things because our reactions are the things that are happening in a more primal way. Whereas our response is what happens when we pause for a second and we choose how we're gonna respond. So a reaction is typically not something you're choosing, a response is something you're choosing. And this happens to me multiple times a day where I gotta check myself. All right, am I reacting or responding here? And which one do I wanna do? I know I can do both, but I'd rather respond. And so the first thing is you gotta be still, you gotta distance yourself from it emotionally first. Then you gotta say, all right, well, how am I gonna respond to this? Well, there's some like logistical steps you might take to try to get back, report it, try to figure out who did it.