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Everyone believes in the American dream, until it comes true.
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- I saw a video, kind of like business guru guy, and he's saying some stuff like, you know, he had a little bed in the gym where he was personal training and he'd sleep there.
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0:00I saw a video, kind of like business guru guy, and he's saying some stuff like, you know, he had a little bed in the gym where he was personal training and he'd sleep there. And all of his trainees were like, "You we love what you're doing, you know, I hope you get I hope you really take off." And then as soon as he actually started making money and he's owned the gym and he's like coming in as the manager, he's like really making moves, everybody's like, "Oh, so you're the boss now, huh? Well, well, am I working hard now?" >> They hate that once he's up.
0:25>> Someone sent me this clip. I first off, I was like, "Oh, this is so cool. Sam's actually seen like my story." Um and I'm sure it's probably relevant to him because he kind of exploded almost overnight and probably some of the people that were in his world were like, "Yeah, man, I hope you you know, I hope you make it on YouTube someday. I hope you hope you can become a you know, a pro bodybuilder." Then all of a sudden he probably is hitting all of those goals and even more. I remember living through that moment and it was so difficult that I actually wrote this essay to myself to try and like make sense of it. And I called it, "Everyone believes in the American dream until it comes true." And it was at what point do you go from being the underdog to the man? And the line that I identified was that everyone who wants you to do well as long as it's not better than …