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People want you to do well, just not better than them.

Alex describes sleeping on a gym floor while clients cheered him on, then getting cold treatment from the same people once he hired a manager nine months later. His takeaway: people root for your struggle but resent you once you actually surpass them.

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    Abschnitt 1 Everyone believes in the American dream until it comes true.

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0:00Everyone believes in the American dream until it comes true. When I was sleeping on the gym floor, I was the underdog. You know, my clients were all like, "Oh, good for you. You know, you're going after your dream." And they'd see my blanket and my pillow in the corner [music] of the gym, and they knew I was sleeping there. And then within 9 months, I had hired people and I had a manager. And I remember I walked in the lobby, and the same people were like, "Oh, boss man's here. Oh, you're you're not too good for us now, right?" And I remember [music] being so jarred by the experience, and I was like, "You guys rooted for me. And now I did what you said you were rooting for me to do." And that was when [music] I realized that people want you to do well, but not better than them.