Hat die Kindheit Alex geprägt?

0:00Um, do you want to talk about maybe how your childhood shaped you into who you are? Because I feel like there's part of you that's really compassionate, but then there's the other side that's really tough on yourself and sometimes tough on other people, too. Yeah. Well, as a quick side note on this, um, I think of what cuz I've had this question in different forms on a couple podcasts about like the struggle growing up, etc. and how that creates success now. But I really think it's People suffer during childhood. Some people are successful and some people aren't.

0:28Like there's just as many people are not even way more people who have terrible childhoods and then don't do anything out of it. And so I don't so to point back to a terrible childhood and say, not that that I had a terrible childhood, but like to tough times and say that that is why I'm here. The why is really difficult and I don't think anyone can answer the question. I just know that I do these things because I've been reinforced for doing them. And so that's like the only rule or law of humanity that I see is that you're either rewarded or punishment punished for doing the things that you've done.

0:56And you either avoid things you've been punished for in the past and then you keep doing things you're rewarded for. And so like I keep working harder and harder on things because my minimum standard continues to rise because the more I raise that minimum standard, the better the things that I have are and the more reinforced I am for working hard on the things that I work on. Real quick, if you're a business owner and you are not growing as fast as you'd like, I'd like to give you a free gift. So my team and I put together the $100 million scaling road map, which is basically 200 hours of us looking over all the portfolio companies we've had and what stages of growth they went through and more importantly where they got stuck and how they got past it.

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