Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode
of the C &S podcast. Our guest today is yours
truly and today we're going to be talking about
11 lessons from the first 10 podcast episodes.
I started this podcast with the intention of
getting to learn from experienced, successful,
and wiser people than myself, and be able to
pull lessons and gain wisdom at a much faster
pace than I would otherwise. So we're going to
go over 11 lessons, some insights that we can
pull from each guest, and I hope that you find
it useful. Let's dive right into it. David Brown
talked about this idea that I call the zigzag
path. And as people who want to achieve stuff,
who want to do well in life, who want to go far,
there's this tendency to apply math principles
to our goals. Obviously, the fastest way from
point A to point B is a straight line. And so
we go, okay. I want to be here in 10 years or
whatever it might be. And we assume it's going
to look like a straight line. And in David Brown's
story, he talked about he graduated from his
degree in Canada. And this random guy from Florida
offered him a job at this ambulance dispatching
company. He didn't really have a plan for how
he wanted to. get to where he wanted. He wanted
to start a business at some point and he just
ends up going over there with no plan, no vision,
no idea of what's to come next. He jumped off
the mountain without a parachute. And it's just
so easy to get wrapped up in this idea of knowing
what's next, of planning out our entire lives
and just following it step by step like some
kind of robot. And it leaks into the way we think
about self -development, self -improvement, because
it's like, oh, 1 % better every day. I'm going
to compound my habits, my daily habits, and over
time I'll achieve my goals. But it almost is
worse to be attached to this idea because we
lose that consistency once and now we're like,
we've lost the progress. It's over. Like, I didn't
go to the gym this week. I didn't do well at
my job. I didn't deliver how I was supposed to.
And in every journey to success, including David
Brown's, which is so salient, is that there's
an element of ups and downs and going the wrong
direction and then going back into the right
direction. Yeah, like, for me personally, this
idea is... is so important because I really don't
know what's next for me. Like I have my, my job
is a software engineer and I know a lot about
software engineering, but I don't know where
that will get me in 20 years. And I've made some
investments in real estate and now I know a lot
about real estate and I don't know where that's
going to get me. And I have this podcast where
I'm meeting cool people and learning things and
enjoying it and I don't know where this is going
to take me maybe nowhere but it's like it's like
the Steve Jobs quote where he talks about none
of the none of the points make sense looking
forward they only make sense in reverse and in
reverse it looks like it was all planned out
it looks like there was this grand master plan
this grand vision when in reality it was just
a series of decisions that seemingly unconnected
became this larger vision for the life and so
I don't know I'm I'm currently thinking a lot
about this because it's like I have some idea
of where I want to end up but it's it's not very
clear how I'm going to get there and every step
I take I take with the sense of This looks like
it'll get me closer. I don't know. It might take
me the wrong way and it might not pan out the
way I thought it did. But yeah, the progression
in life is never linear. It's a convolution of
wrong lefts and wrong rights. We don't have a
map of where we're going. Number two, Eddie Connors
talks about this idea about being pleasantly
persistent. I see so many people who have an
aversion to coming off as needy or desperate
or like trying too hard or like you're doing
too much. There's this idea that keeps popping
up, which is like, it looks bad to try hard at
things. And the reason I think this is such a
good addendum to that is because it takes off.
some of the weight of of persisting like being
pleasantly persistent and so it could be something
like I want this job and they're not responding
to me I've applied I've done all the things and
you want to give up and not come off as needy
or desperate but there's there's power in just
following up sending that email that you need
to send and not in like a oh you didn't respond
to me way it's like a very pleasant like a reminder
that I'm here and I just think that when it comes
to getting something that we want we don't want
to come off as needy or insecure or desperate
but it's like a good example is like let's say
I'm insecure about my hair for some reason. And
it's almost more insecure for me to try to hide
the fact that I'm insecure about my hair than
to just be like, yeah, I'm slightly insecure
about my hair. Like maybe I'm balding. Maybe
my hair doesn't look the best. I'm not actually
balding, but it's like owning that insecurity.
is what not being insecure is rather than trying
to hide it, trying to abstract it away. And as
another thing that I was thinking about, it's
like whenever we're trying to not come off as
needy or desperate or like I want something,
it makes people feel as though they're operating
from scarcity, right? And sometimes you are operating
from scarcity and that's okay. And owning that
and being able to be pleasantly persistent is
the only way to push forward. And it's like if
I'm offering something of value to someone, let's
say, again, it is the job or maybe it's a relationship
or maybe it's whatever other goal I might have.
If I was actually offering something of value,
I would be persistent. And the example I give
is like if I find a hundred dollars on the street
and I saw it fell out of someone's wallet, I'm
not going to be scared to then go and chase after
them and be like, yo, you dropped a hundred dollars
because I know that that thing is valuable. Like
there's not going to be a weirdness around me
being persistent. And so. yeah, when it comes
to like a job or a relationship, it's like, I
am offering something of value and it makes sense
that I would be persistent. And yeah, it's like
the pleasantness adds a nice air of levity to
it where, I mean, the way Eddie always does it
is he's, he's a lovable guy. He's like always
laughing and having a good time. He'll ask for
something, and if he doesn't get it, it's not
like he's depressed about it. He's not down on
himself. It's just like, oh, well, I got a no.
I'm closer to a yes, right? And so, yeah, just
taking this fun, kind, pleasant persistency into
everything we do, every opportunity we're trying
to get into is just so important. And I struggle
with it as well, where it's like, I don't like
even with this podcast, like sometimes it'll
take me quite a while to book a guest that I
want to have on and I'll keep shooting them texts
or emails. And it's not like I'm like, yo, you
need to get on the podcast right now. It's just
like, hey, man, I'm still here. I still want
to shoot a podcast with you. I think it would
be great. I think you would love it. I think
I would love it. I think it'll overall be a great
experience for the both of us. And just taking
that in stride. Number three with Kushong Hirapada.
Kushong talked a lot about this idea of the lonely
chapter and how there's times in our lives when
When things are quite lonely, like when you're
trying to create, go from zero to one, you're
trying to create something from nothing. And
the easiest example of that is like a business.
I have nothing and I'm trying to create something
that provides value to others in a business setting.
And the reason it's lonely is not necessarily
because people aren't supportive or because you
don't have friends. But it's like when you're
starting out at something, you're the one who
cares about it the most. And the only way it's
going to get anywhere is by you doing the work
to push it forward. It gets lonely because, yeah,
no one else is on that path with you. You're
the one who's driving forward, who's having the
long nights, who's having the early mornings
in pursuit of this goal that might not pan out
to anything. which makes it all the more scary.
It might not pan out to a single thing. You might
get literally nothing out of it and it can be
really lonely and isolating, but it's like acknowledging
that there will be a lonely chapter makes it
easier to handle. Like I know that there will
be a period where other people don't see what
I'm building, where I'm doing work that no one
else sees that I'm doing. I'm doing work that
may not be the right work. I'm learning how to
fail. I'm pushing forward. And I think Kushong
embodies this so well in that he's like, there's
always more that you can do. And there is no
bar for I've done enough. And that seems like
it would be slightly depressing but in in the
sense of I'm working towards something greater
than myself it's not necessarily depressing because
it's not depressing because yeah you are in the
pursuit of this this big thing that you've always
wanted to do and acknowledging and taking it
into yourself that you will have tough times
And you knew that when you started, you knew
that this is what hard feels like and that's
okay. And you knew you signed up for this. There's
a level of happiness that can come from the lonely
period in which you already knew this is what
it was going to take. The reason that you're
going to win is because every single time that
you push forward every day, every hour of extra
work that you do, that's the work that no one
else is willing to do. This is the pain that
it takes. And the reason you will win is because
you're willing to deal with the lonely period.
Number four, I talked with Charles. Charles M.
Salanga, and he's from Kenya, and he's a motivational
speaker, and he talked to me about how direction
matters more than speed. And when I think about
this, I think about myself and how I always want
to move fast and get to the next thing and get
to the next level and progress and push forward.
There's almost something that you lose when you're
only focused on getting to the end goal as fast
as possible. Because when you're in pursuit of
that thing, you have little wins along the way
that you ignore because you're trying to get
there as fast as possible. As humans, psychologically,
we get so much fulfillment out of every win if
we focus on it. If we only congratulate ourselves
on the big win, on the I finally made it, we
sit there and we have a moment of feeling really
good about ourselves, maybe a day, and then on
to the next goal, on to the next one. And so
I think it reminds me in the times when maybe
I'm not making progress as fast as I'd like that
a small progression of little, wins makes you
a lot happier than one big win. We just want
it to happen so fast. As soon as you get to the
end of the goal, the next thing to do is pick
up the next goal. And so we can never, if we're
only focused on those big five, 10 year goals,
most of the time spent on those goals is the
in -between time. It is that gap between I've
built a successful business. I've built a great
family. I've built the physique that I want.
And almost the entirety of our lives is in those
gaps in between. It's the Rocky cut scene where
he's training and he's waking up early and he's
got the Rocky theme song. And in the movie, it's
only, what, 30 seconds, a minute? But in our
lives, that bit is the majority of the thing.
And so being able to sit in that and gather little
wins every day, every week, and then acknowledging
the work that we're doing and getting some fulfillment
out of just the journey towards the goal rather
than the goal itself. And yeah, it's just been
something really important for me to think about
appreciating. everything that i've done so far
and congratulating myself as i get further and
further and making sure that i don't let it all
pass me by and number five sarah margalisi talked
about the unconventional path we talked a lot
about how you'll never really find the perfect
thing the perfect job the perfect relationship
the perfect day the perfect anything like there's
the way she described it was 80 if 80 of the
time you're happy with your job then that's that's
awesome like 80 is great if 20 if it's only 20
of the time that you feel down about what you're
doing that's like top to your you've found something
that you really really enjoy that's one day a
week out of five there's there's some at least
maybe in young people, there's some idea of like
following your passion and like achieving your
dreams and doing the, do like the thing you love
and you'll never work a day in your life. And
I think that's just plain wrong. Like, I don't
think like from everyone I've talked to, I don't
think there is a thing that will never feel like
work. Like the people that turn their hobby into
Their job often end up hating their hobby because
they do have to perform every single day on that
thing. And yeah, it's just being okay with something
that fulfills you the majority of the time. And
that might be your corporate career, but often
it lies in some unconventional path. Like Sarah,
she wanted to be a rock star. And she dropped
out of high school. Along the way, she had a
strong affinity towards growing plants and towards
knowing a lot about these plants. And so she
started it out as a side business. Like, I'm
kind of good at this. I kind of want my main
thing to be the rock band. But she ended up being
so good at it that she built an entire company
out of it. tens of employees and a lot of revenue
and and at a certain point it was like whoa I
actually really like this maybe it is that 80
% of the time I'm okay with it and that was the
thing she ended up building and like she still
does the music stuff as a hobby but this other
thing with her landscaping company she's able
to go in create a community of people that enjoy
it. She's able to make money from it. She is
able to enjoy it the majority of the time. And
that's, that's what we should strive for is,
is that 80, 20%, 80 % of the time I'm satisfied
with what I'm doing and everybody's got off days.
20 % of the time it sucks. And number six with
Matthew Gear talked about these, these pillars
of things in our life, our lives that we should
protect. A few things that we know make us better
every single day. And for a lot of people that
might be getting your physical activity in. For
Matt, it was going to the gym every day. He gets
his sense of, I'm getting better and I'm working
at something and I'm getting the endorphins from
working out. And then it's like our diets and
making sure that most of the time we're eating
good food and fueling our body the way it needs
to be fueled. And another pillar might be sleep
and making sure that I'm getting that eight,
nine hours of sleep every night. Maybe not every
single night, but the majority of nights. And
so there's these pillars that we know fundamentally
make us better. They make us more pleasant to
be around. They make us more healthy. They make
us feel good. And a lot of times in pursuit of
a goal, we can sacrifice those things in exchange
for the metric that we're chasing after. Maybe
I'm chasing a promotion. Maybe I'm chasing a
new business I'm starting. Maybe I'm chasing
I want to be an influencer. Whatever the thing
might be, if we guard our pillars closely. throughout
that entire time, it'll make the whole experience
all the more enjoyable. And there's a level of
sacrifice that it does take to achieve, but those
pillars stand there and hold us up while we take
the pain of rejection or the pain of not performing
how I want to perform and all of these things
that come with trying to achieve things. The
pillars are the thing that we can come back to
and refuel and take care of ourselves. And at
a certain point, there's old people that are
in their 60s, 70s, and 80s, and they're wealthy
and they're rich and they're successful. And
they would trade places with you in a heartbeat
to have the physical capabilities you have, to
have the energy, to have the good sleep, to have
the health that they had when they were young.
That it's something that doesn't have a price
tag on it. It's invaluable because a billionaire
like Warren Buffett, who's in his 80s or 90s,
he would give it all up in a heartbeat to have
that health. And if you were posed the question,
would you rather have a billion dollars and be
80 and have maybe 10, 20 years left to live?
Would you take the billion dollars? I warrant
most people would say, no, I wouldn't take the
billion dollars. I know I wouldn't. Like that
billion dollars isn't worth all of this time
and youth that I have. And so, yeah, it's important
to guard those pillars very well. And if we fall
off of them for a little bit, that's okay. But
once you lose the youth and the time and the
energy and the health, you can't get it back.
You can, but it's really, really difficult if
you've lost those pillars for a really long time.
With Alex Oxford, we talked about his cancer
diagnosis and we talked about how would you live
differently if you knew you only had one year
left to live? And it's something that not, it's
really hard to think about. Like, it feels as
though I have a lot of time left. Maybe you watching,
it might feel that way. Like, I have a lot of
time left to do the things I want to do. I'm
just going to put up with whatever I'm putting
up right now. And I'll eventually do, I'll eventually
build the business. I'll eventually get in shape.
I'll eventually get a better relationship with
my parents. I'll eventually do whatever it might
be. And there's just this urgency. It's a life
that's hard to conceptualize. There's a really
good thing from Sahil Bloom. He talks about in
his book about when he taught how to talk with
his friend. And his friend told him or asked
him how often he sees his parents. And he said,
oh, I see them like once a year, twice a year,
whatever it was. And the friend is like, okay,
how old are your parents? Oh, they're in their
60s. And he's like, okay, average lifespan of
a human is about 75 years old. And that gives
you 15 years, two visits each year. You're going
to see your parents 30 more times before they
die. And there's, yeah, like, imagine that. 30
times you'll see your parents before they die.
That should give you a sense of urgency of like,
oh, I need to actually tell the things that I
want to tell to my parents. I need to hang out
with them. I need to build a better relationship
with them. And this idea gives me a tension for
myself where it's like, partially you do want
to have this urgency for life. for doing things
that you want to do. But there's also, wait,
if I'm going to die in a year, would I even pursue
any of the goals I'm doing? And so there's this
tension between long time horizons of delaying
gratification and delaying the things I really
want so that I can have them in the future. But
then also, you might die in a year and it never
manifests. For Alex, the way that he took it
was, well, I know I want to start a business.
And I know that I want to be an entrepreneur.
And I don't know how long I have left to live.
And it seems a lot less risky to do it now because
I don't know if I'll make it to the next year,
to the next six months. And, yeah, it reminds
me of Viktor Frankl's imperative where he talks
about live as if you were living a second time
and you had acted wrongly the first. And not
letting these other ideas, narratives from maybe
peers, maybe parents, maybe partners tell us
the thing that we should do. And that's... The
shoulds are the ones that get in our way. I should
work a corporate job. I should get married now.
I should or I shouldn't get married now. I shouldn't
have kids now. Whatever the narrative is, it's
like, what do you actually want out of your life?
And if you only had a year left, what would you
do? And once you conceptualize that and. think
about it and meditate about what those things
are that you want out of life, then just pursue
them with like a vengeance, with an urgency,
because we've got one shot at this thing. And
why am I going to spend my time wasting it on
things that I don't want? If I've got one shot,
I shouldn't waste it. Alex brought up a lot of
cool things to think about. In terms of figuring
out exactly what you want out of life. Number
eight, Armin Kadiwala. We had a long conversation
about how we set goals and how we can achieve
those things. And Armin talked about this tendency
that people have, that myself has, that he has,
that everyone has to move the goalposts. on a
goal that we want to achieve. It's like, and
the analogy he used was some kind of race, like
a marathon. Like if I signed up for the full
marathon and I made it halfway to the 13 miles
and then I give up and I say, woohoo, I did a
half marathon. It's like, no, you just moved
the goalposts. It would be different if the initial
goal was to hit the half marathon. I'm going
to run a half marathon. That's much different
than I set the goal here and I gave up halfway
and then celebrated that I achieved something.
Yeah, he reminded me that it's important to keep
yourself accountable to the goals that you set
and remember why you set them. This is why you
don't set a goal willy -nilly. You don't set
a goal like, oh, I'm going to go to the moon,
whatever it might be. You don't just choose it
out of... chance or out of impulse because you're
the one who's holding yourself accountable to
it and at the end of it you know if you achieved
it or not and you're not going to be able to
make it to the end of that goal if if you don't
didn't have a strong why for why you were doing
it like a strong reason a strong motive not motivation
motivation is fleeting but a strong fundamental
desire or something you were seeking from fulfillment
from that goal that will keep you going forward
when it gets hard and keep you from moving the
goalposts because you know that the thing you
want is at the end of the goal not at halfway
to the goal and I've been reflecting on this
because because I know that I know that I personally
want to start a very successful business. And
I've already had one failed one. I've given it
an attempt. And right now I'm in a decently good
spot in terms of financial security and accolades
and whatever it might be, all of these external
metrics. And from an outside perspective, looking
in, someone might say, well, you already did
the half marathon. Why would you go for the full?
And I have sometimes fallen into this mode of
thinking where it's like, yeah, I can rest on
my laurels. I have done a lot, but I know that
what I set out to do was to build something that
lasts, something that's bigger than myself and
not allowing myself to move those goalposts is
a strong reminder that I need every day. And
including this podcast, like I want. grow this
podcast. I want to have awesome guests on. I
want to share wisdom and share the spirit of
living courageously with others around me. And
I know why I've wanted to do that. And I can't
move the goalposts on any of those things. Number
nine, Dean Doe. This one's fun. Dean and I talked
a lot about goals. I guess a lot of this podcast,
a lot of this podcast so far has been about goals.
And although goals are important and it's cool
to achieve things and it feels good to overcome
something, to achieve something, it's the human
spirit, right? There's goals that you've achieved
before that you said would make you happy. And
with Dean, he's done. really well for himself
he's achieved a lot of success in the corporate
world he's created a whole entire portfolio of
real estate that he built himself and within
three years and he learned and he grew and he
succeeded and for himself he told me that he'd
that he always tells other people to to celebrate
to slow down to enjoy their success and he has
some inability to stop and to he always wants
the next goal but he remembers that there are
goals that he's achieved that he said would make
him happy and the reason I thought this was so
interesting or cool was that I myself have also
achieved goals that I said would make me happy.
And at the end of it, I create a new goal and
I say, this one will make me happy. This will
be the one. And obviously, it's never enough.
There's never a goal that will actually get you
in a mental state where you're satisfied. Oh,
I can rest now. It's just never going to happen.
And it provides an ability to reframe the goals
as their purpose is not. to make you happy. There
are other ways to try to pursue happiness, however
you might define it. For some people, that's
experiences. For some other people, that's their
family. Whatever it is for you, goals aren't
meant to make you happy. They're there for you
to have something to push towards. There's something
And maybe this is how I would like to say it
the best is that the goal is never about the
goal. You are the goal. You yourself are the
outcome that you are pursuing. And the goal is
a conduit for the growth that you are seeking
as a person. And it's never been about the goal.
It's never been about achievement. It's always
been about... turning yourself into the person
that you want to be and you are the eternal project
you are the the goal that's never complete but
it's the only goal that matters is crafting this
person that you look up to that you love that
you think is awesome and that's you and number
10 with Philip Folsom. He talked a lot about
this idea of the lone wolf. The time of the lone
wolf is over. The lone wolf dies. And the reason
he talked about it is there's this thing in wolves
where they're one of the only animals where you
can find evidence of healed broken bones. And
why is that important? Why does that matter?
Well, healed broken bones are proof of This tribe
that supports the person that is down. Because
a lone wolf who breaks its leg or a rib or whatever
or has some capability that takes away its ability
to survive in the wild, it dies. The wolf who
has no tribe dies. And the wolf with the tribe
gets nursed back to health. and protected until
he can now go out again and hunt big game and
give give to the rest of the tribe give to the
rest of the people that maybe are down and this
reminds me of of maybe this maybe this meme or
idea is less popular now but like the The Sigma
male, the I just need to lock in, the I don't
need anyone else. I'm just going to push forward
towards my goals. And that person isn't the person
who wins. Like this idea of the person who just
achieves on their own is. Kind of fake. The people
who succeed and do really well and build amazing
lives are the people who are surrounded by a
tribe, the people who are supported by others,
who are brought back up when they're down. And
that's an investment that needs to be made in
the tribe. And the tribe could be your coworkers,
your family, your close friends, your relationship.
But it's all these people around you that care
about you and believe in you. You need to invest
in those. You need to give to others and help
them out and raise them up when they're down.
And then every time that you're down, you get
brought back up. And this allows the capability
to take more risk. And risk often creates outsized
returns. And the only way you feel safe to take
a risk is that you know if you fall, you'll get
picked back up. And Philip talked about the army
and how the person you looked out for the least
was yourself. Why was that? You had 10 other
guys looking out for your safety and your only
job was to look out for the 10 other guys' safety.
Like there's no the 10 other soldiers and making
sure that they're safe. And yeah, I just want
to get rid of this myth because it's such an,
for some reason, it's so attractive to young
men to pursue things on a solo track, to come
out, to go monk mode and change their lives in
six months, in 12 months. And there is, again,
the lonely chapter that Kushong talked about,
which is there are periods of time where your
head's down and you're pushing and you're building,
but you can't have those periods without having
previously invested in the tribe around you.
And one of the most scary things is to get to
the end of a goal of an achievement and to have
nobody to share that with, not a single person.
Sure, you achieved it. But who's happy for you?
Who is there to celebrate with you? And so, yeah,
there's the lone wolf dies. Don't be a lone wolf.
And this last idea is one that is from myself
that I've been thinking a lot about. And it's
been the end of 2024 a bit ago. And I was reflecting
on a lot of just like... what I've done in my
life so far and how 2024 went. And I came to
think about this idea of you versus you and how
you versus you is often touted as the mentality
that we should take when trying to get a new
goal or a new skill or taking on a new challenge.
The curse of you versus you. The only person
that you should try to be is yourself. And every
day you should show up better than the day before.
And it's generally good advice. It generally
works. Like if I'm unfit and I just need to go
to the gym for 10 minutes, I win against myself.
And that starts to compound. I go to the gym
for 10 minutes. I go to the gym for 20 minutes.
Or maybe I'm unemployed and I just need to show
up to a job interview to beat my previous day,
like my previous self. Maybe I'm scared of showing
up to the job interview because I'm scared of
rejection. And I beat myself by showing up. And
the task that is demanded of you by this prerogative
makes sense a lot of time because you're reaching
beyond your current capabilities and pushing
them. But what happens when you do become an
extremely high performer? When your only option
is to outdo your latest, greatest achievement?
How does Kobe beat himself after winning the
NBA championship? How does Jeff Bezos beat himself
and build a bigger company than Amazon? And it
seems like they should be just fine. They should
be satisfied with their achievements. The prerogative
of you versus you, they should continue to try
to beat these achievements. But at what cost?
Like, how do you outperform yourself when you've
already done so much? You versus you leads you
to getting better at whatever the goal was that
you set out for yourself. But once you reach
a certain level, you're actually cursed to compete
against yourself. Wouldn't it be nice to rest
against the laurels? of comparing yourself to
someone else, to say I may not have beaten my
own personal record, but I'm so far ahead of
everyone else that it doesn't matter. And I've
been thinking a lot about this because I was
down on myself for when I reflected on 2024.
It felt like I'd started a lot of new things.
and achieved some things. Like I started this
podcast. I started in real estate investing.
I went to some cool places, traveling. There
was a lot of progress that I made. And reflecting
on it, I thought to myself that I really, really
half did a lot of things. I wasn't proud of it.
I was like, maybe I should have been more focused
throughout the year. Maybe I should have cut
out some of the things that I was working on.
But I was talking to one of my friends and he
was like, you shouldn't be down on yourself because
even if you've failed to achieve excellence at
everything you've done, you did a lot of hard
things. You started a lot of things that take
a lot of effort. encouraged to do and you should
be maybe not should but it's okay to be satisfied
with what I accomplished and yeah that's that's
part of that curse of you versus you is part
of the reason I'm so down on myself is because
I'm trying to beat who I was previously and the
the only way I can do that is by being more excellent
than I have been before And generally, I've done
pretty well for myself. And now I want to do
better than that. And it's being able to break
out of the you versus you mentality. Like it's
a useful mentality to have. It's a useful metric
to compare yourself to yourself. But you shouldn't
always compare yourself to yourself. Like sometimes
you've just done well, even if you didn't. outcompete
your previous best you didn't you didn't have
more character than you did the year before you
didn't you didn't achieve something to a level
of excellence that you hadn't achieved before
sometimes it's okay to just have had a good year
where you maintained some things you built some
other things and being okay with being satisfied
with those things is just like something I'm
working really hard on right now And yeah, that's
the curse of you versus you. And so that's all
I have for you guys today. And I hope you've
enjoyed this little journey alongside my reflections
on the few podcasts that I've had so far. And
we're going to have a ton more podcasts. I'll
do a few more of these reflections along the
way, reflecting on what I'm learning and how
I'm growing. Thank you all for the support, and
I really hope you're getting something out of
it. The whole reason I started this podcast is
because I don't want to learn things alone. I
want to be able to share those things, right?
And so everyone who's listening and watching
wherever you're consuming this podcast, you get
to come alongside and see what I learn, how I
fail. maybe get some learnings yourself and yeah
thank you all and have a great day