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0:00Chris Rock has a great saying. He says, "Follow your dreams if they're hiring." You are fooling yourself. You have this idea, "I'm going to I'm going to pursue what I'm passionate about. I'm going to I'm going to paint paintings all day." But even then, it's not true. The pursue your passion is only true in the vague and never in the specific. And I only say this as somebody who [ __ ] went all the way with it. I was in the fitness and I started the gyms and then I scaled the gyms and I did the turnarounds and I scaled it six hours locations. I started a software company.
0:27I started a software company. I sold all of it to private equity. I did the whole thing. And what do I have today? A gym that has no members. And I love it, but it's not what I make money on. You're using the excuse of passion to disguise your inability [music] to tolerate hardness.