The fastest growth periods are often the most miserable.

0:00I own three gyms in Los Angeles. >> Okay. >> I think what's stopping me, it's in here. Or it's like it's in here. When you were talking about yesterday with Jim launch and being in a dark place, wanting to get out of the business, in those darker moments or when you just didn't want to do the work, like how did you keep the faith? >> Um, >> [sighs] >> I think the honest truth of it is I don't have many alternatives that I enjoy more than business. I have a relatively bleak perspective and so if you have a a worldview that's working for you, ignore what I'm about to say.

0:29The premise of life is that life is suffering. And so if I don't do anything, which I did take a year off during the sale, um, I was miserable. And when I'm growing a business, I'm also miserable. It's just different. And when a business is plateauing and we can't move forward because we're constrained for whatever reason, I'm also miserable. And so whether we're shrinking, I'm doing nothing, we're growing or plateauing, misery is just a constant. And so I'm being real. Then I was like I shifted to like well I'll just be useful. And that has served me really well in my life. Because you have to be useful to someone. But it also gives you something to do because in order to be useful to someone, you have to learn stuff. Like I don't need to do any of this. I do it because um, I want to be useful.

1:11That gives me some inkling of meaning. And so I chase that. But I definitely have bad days. >> Well, I speak on behalf of everybody here, you made a big difference for all of our lives, so. >> I appreciate it. Thank you.