Warum offenes Reden über Probleme riskant sein kann

0:00I I want to highlight too the part about sleeping in the basement and that sleeping in the gym and taking a picture of it. You post it on social media that day and it gets zero likes. You post it on social media today and it gets a million. And I think there's something interesting to that is like the more you build the story, the more the low points actually mean and the greater the Yeah, you have >> I'll actually give you I'll give you something that you probably didn't expect from me on this one. It's actually I think it's a smiley face. So if you post it when you're going through it, people will respond saying keep chasing your dreams, keep at it, etc.

0:38And then when you start succeeding, all of a sudden they won't do that. And then later they'll be like, "It's cool that you came from that." >> But like when you're on the come up and I remember I wrote this I wrote this essay and I'm I've actually tried to find it and it was because I I I liked creative writing. I had a creative writing scholarship back in the like I didn't actually take that scholarship to it. Anyways, point is I've liked writing for a long time. And I wrote this essay to myself because I'm a weirdo. Um, I said, "Everyone believes in the American dream until it comes true."

1:08And so that was like the heading. And it was it was this weird observation that I had because like everyone was rooting for me when I was sleeping on the floor. So like in my head I had back home everybody that I was running away from, but everyone in the local like the people at my gym and stuff, they were like rooting for me. You know what I mean? They're like, "Good for you. chasing your dreams like you know you're you're sleeping at the gy like you're going to get it you're going to make it man right but like nine months later when I had like a team and I had a manager and like I wasn't at the gym every hour of every day I was working from home sometimes because I got more done because it wouldn't you know disrupt me. Um and I would show up to the gym or I'd show up to a second location and they'd be like oh big man like can't be too bothered by us like don't forget us little people right and all that stuff. And I remember being like when did I be I was like when did I go from the underdog to the man

1:58>> as in like working for the man which is a saying that Gen Z probably doesn't know but um I think that there's a quote that I think uh Chris Williamson said that I really and I think he was quoting somebody I don't remember it was but anyways he he said people root for you on your way up because you remind them of their dreams and they try to tear you down once you're there because you remind them that they gave up on them something.

2:25And I I have lived that. And it's it's weird because I think there's these cycles as you kind of gain an influence. It's kind of like the crab story like in the beginning like all the crabs try and pull the other crabs back into the bucket. So I think like you start succeeding and people are like good for you. that gives them hope. And then you start passing them and it's like everyone wants you to do well, just not better than them. >> Yeah.

2:52>> Right. And so then you start passing them by the objective measure, whatever you want to call it. And then they start cutting at you, right? Well, he cut corners. He's not ethical. He's, you know, they start making things up, whatever, right? But then what happens is people who are not from your hometown start recognizing for who you are now. >> And they they didn't see the path. They didn't see you suck in the beginning. They just see who you are now and they're like, "Wow, this guy's great. He's provides so much value, whatever it is, right?" And I think there's a saying that Jesus Jesus wasn't the Messiah in his hometown, right? Like the that it's counterintuitive, but you think that the place that someone was from is the place that they that would root for him, but it was the last place that accepted him as Lord in the story, right? And I think there's a lot of truth to that. And so it's also why I'm a big advocate of leaving. Like if you want to become a different person, then change your environment because the environment you have is reinforcing the person you used to be.

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