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0:00So, when we ask you questions, it sounds like you place a lot of value and fulfillment in who you eventually will be at some point. >> 100%. >> Right? Which is like the the guy providing the most amount of value, the billion-dollar guy, etc. Solomon. Yeah. >> Yes. Um yet at the same time you do say things like, "I do not want to place my value in some sort of a future event that could happen." >> Mhm. Right? Because then you're creating a distance between who you are right now and who you'd like to be. >> Um how do you maintain that balance of like putting so much value in this future self, yet at the same time being fulfilled and happy in a present moment?

0:32>> it's just the process of becoming. You know what I mean? Like I Like if you ask me truthfully, like I enjoyed every minute of the of the suffering of doing that presentation 5 6 hours every single day for the entire month leading up to that. Like I I enjoyed it because I knew I felt like I was becoming the best of me or I was living through the values that I choose to believe matter to me. How do you find something or how does someone that's watching this find something that they can set as their true north that every single action will make them fulfilled on their way to that? I don't think you're going to figure it out on the first shot. I think I think an easier North Star is um learning to work.

1:09Learning to work. >> I'll give you I'll give you a different example. So, I had um I had a buddy who was in the fitness industry and he had a pretty successful fitness business and then he quit that uh to start cookies, a cookie store. Completely I was like he's getting people skinny and then he's making them fat. He's like, "Yeah, I've got a complete system, right?" He's joking, right? And um he wasn't passionate about cookies. He was passionate about being excellent at whatever he did.

1:32And I really like that as the frame, which is like you don't need to try Like first off, you're not going to find your passion because anything that you start doing that you haven't done before you're going to suck at cuz that's what you do when you do something for the first time. And you tend to only like things that you are good at. And so, sucking is a prerequisite for liking most of the time. And so, you just have to be willing to suck um in order to quote find your passion, which all you ended up doing is creating a passion, but whatever. And so, anyways, he had his his cookie store, and it wasn't like he woke every morning be like, "I just want to feed cookies to the world. Like, I just want everyone to understand how butter and chocolate and salt work." Well, it He didn't think that way. He was like, "I want to run an excellent business." And so, whether he was doing a dry cleaning business or a tractor supply store business or he was wholesaling real estate, it was his dedication to excellence, that single value, which then permeated everything else. And so, I think that for somebody who's starting out, like, simply dedicating yourself to understanding what hard work feels like, and and the commitment to the repetitive actions that you have to do day in day out without reward, like, making that the W gets you there. And I think the long term is that you just make that the W, period. You're not thinking about getting there. You just win every day.

2:44And you think that will serve most most people? Yes, absolutely. To strive for excellence in any given field? Million percent. And then creating, you said creating interesting rather than finding a passion. No one finds a passion. I mean, some people do. Sure, some I think the vast majority people the vast majority of people find themselves in careers because they on Like, think about like the first job you ever got. It's probably just like on a whim, somebody told you there was a thing, and then you find yourself 10 years later like off a tree branch from this this first path of career that you got into.

3:13>> What? I would disagree. Not for me. I don't know. Yeah, the aquarium stuff. I wanted to do that. But you still do. You're still off a tree branch. I mean, we blogged on this the family about your aquarium and stuff like that. >> Oh, yeah, but but I feel like I have control Like, that was just something I would love to do. Yeah. Well, my my my my my point here was just that um dedicating yourself to being excellent and doing the repetitive tasks, you get better at the thing, and then you tend to like the things when you get better at them. Like, and then external reinforcers start kicking over. Like, you just need to have enough in the beginning to get you going, and then after that, like, being good at playing ping pong takes over for playing ping pong. Do you like anything you're bad at? Do I like anything I'm bad at?

3:53Um What are the some of the things that you're bad at and maybe Layla's like, "Oh, let's go axe throwing." And you're like, "I hate axe throwing, but I will do it." And you do it and you suck, but you like it. >> Yeah. Um there's not many things. Really? Yeah, no. I mean >> something? I don't I mean I I don't do many things that I like To be fair, I don't do a lot of stuff. Like I literally I I um I recently picked up ping pong, which is fun. >> Yeah, yeah. I recently picked up ping pong. >> I I can coach you. Dude, are you good? >> I'm disgusting at ping pong. I'm very good at it. That's like that's my one thing.

4:22>> No, I've never competed. Have you been to Las Vegas Table Tennis? No. Okay, it's like a club on the strip. It's the people there are incredible. Oh, sweet. Yeah, I might I might partake. Yeah. >> Okay. No, I've just like I I I used to play at home when I was a kid. Um cuz I didn't have siblings for a while. And so I just played against the wall for [ __ ] hours every single day. >> about ping pong? What's the appeal of it? >> stakes, baby. Yeah, it's 100% that. Is it Do you find a way to zone out? Is that just like that you >> I I am not there. Like while I'm playing

4:48>> in the moment. Your mind is just It's like racing. If you've ever done like race cars, it's the same thing. Like you there's there's two like not just like rallying, but like if you're really playing, you can't focus on anything besides the ball. And so like everything else disappears. >> And what do you get out of that? I just enjoy that. It's like unplugging. Like that's just truly like a wreck ranch. Like I just enjoy it. I would say the same thing is true for lifting for me. Like when you have a huge amount of weight on your back, you're you can't think about anything else. You just have to be there. An old time lifter, Dave Tate, used to talk about it. He wrote this like epic blog post on it called Going into the Void. He said when his father died, he um like the thing that he would look forward to most was like getting under the bar because like during those few seconds where he had like his life literally like on his back cuz if you [ __ ] it up with a thousand pounds on your back, like you'll just break your back.

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