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0:00So I noticed this theme in you of like I don't care what anything's happening. I'm controlling what I'm controlling and I'm being exactly who I want to be. Were you always like this as a kid or was this something that you have developed over time? Yeah, I think it's a skill that's developed over time. I mean I think there's definitely like when we talked about deprivation earlier, I definitely felt deprived of money. I've always wanted to make a lot of money. It's like been a very big desire of mine. Um and I just have gotten better and better at pursuing that goal. You know, like in the beginning I just had general motivation, but I had no skill. So it's like I heard this works. I heard that you know, like you just you you go you wander and you just have lots of activity to try and burn through things to figure out like what starts to give you some feedback and then you start moving in that direction. I've always been motivated.

0:41Um I've always been pretty high achieving. I don't have the like I failed school and like I was great at school. You know, I I think I had 13 AP credits going into college. I finished college in 3 years magna [ __ ] laude. I was vice president of the powerlifting team. I was president of the fraternity. Like I was trying to [ __ ] life. You know what I mean? Everyone's different. But like at the same time there's plenty of people who didn't have any of that stuff and then crush it later. Um but you I think you can just always make the decision to do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it. Like the idea that you haven't been successful for your entirety of your life has absolutely no impact on why you can't be successful right now. The the work that needs to be done for someone to succeed remains unchanged.

1:18And so like whenever you choose to start that, you choose to start that and everything before that moment doesn't really matter. Well, I think it's easier when you have momentum behind you. >> Oh, sure. Yeah, I'm I'm just saying like objectively if you have zero momentum and you still do the thing, it still works. >> My my thought is that it might be harder if you don't have that previous success to draw from. >> Totally. Might hold you back in in ways of maybe being more cautious. Yeah. Self-doubt, things like that. Yeah, um I think I think I I use the term chunking up or chunking down, but like the you know, the biggest predictor of future success is past success regardless. And so the idea is like okay, well, you might be like well, I want to take this big jump, but I've never done that before. Like how do I take this jump? How do I take this risk, right? Well, it's like can you generalize some of the other things you've done in the past um that would give you some level of confidence that this is not unreasonable. And so it's like if I've been really disciplined at school and exercise, then it might be I might it might follow that I'll be relatively disciplined with my job. Is it guaranteed? No, but I could still make a generalization that that's it's plausible. And so I think it's like stacking those wins uh as low as a common denominator as you can. I mean you know, for somebody who's absolutely just like sucking at life right now, then it's like if you got out of bed today, then cool. Call it a W. You know what I mean? Like just regress it back and then you start just like you'd add weight to a bar, you add weight to the goals. So is it as simple as just waking up in the morning? Great. Then it would be take a walk for 10 minutes. Great.

2:36And then just building on that. Yeah, and I think your bar always moves. Like when a toddler in the beginning begins speaking, they approximate the word mom. They're like "Moo." And you're like, "Yeah!" You're so excited. But like, you know, 10-year-old says mom and you tell him to screw off, right? Like the bar moves. Yeah, I'm not your mom. Right. Yeah, sure. Yeah, I'm not your mom. Um no, but the bar moves because like your standards for excellence continue to improve. So it's like if you're like don't use someone else's standards, use your own. And once you can say mom really consistently, then like start saying sentences. Real quick, if you are 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 roadmap, 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. And so we broke it into these 10 stages and we made this little kind of quiz thing where if you put in your business information, it'll tell you where you're at and the most important part for you, what to do for each of functions of the business across product, marketing, sales, customer success, recruiting, IT, human resources and finance. And so no matter what you're struggling with, someone else has already struggled with it and solved it.

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