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0:00I think the patience is relative to the outcome that you're going for. And so like if you if you're trying to climb Everest, right? Your rate of ascension in terms of altitude is going to be significantly faster than somebody who's trying to climb a foothill. The percentage growth will might might be the same though. And so a patient person might be willing to grow at 1 2 3 4% per year towards their ultimate Everest, but it's just that 4% of Everest is significantly faster than 4% of a foothill. And so the absolute difference will be different, but the relative difference which is like what I'm quote measuring myself against is where I feel patient. And I think that's where um the whole macro, you know, uh macro speed, sorry, macro patience micro speed is uh is super important. So like we still need we still have deadlines, we still need to move the ball forward, we still have to act with urgency. We still have to ask the question of like what would it take in order to do this in half the time? What would it take for us to do this in a fifth of the time?

0:52And can we do that? Let's do that. And I think I honestly see a lot of the job of the manager or the driver or the operator, depending on what term you want to use, as doing that, which is just consistently pulling like pulling the future forward faster. And like when you're having it, you know, even at the tactical level like you're having a team meeting and you say, "Hey, when can you get that done by?" They'll give you a date and then like the follow up like you know, a level one manager a level zero manager doesn't ask when they're when there's when the deadline is. A level one manager would be like, would just accept the deadline. Like a level two manager would be like, "Well, what else do you have uh that's blocking you right now from getting that done?"

1:26Uh and they might say, "Well, I have these three things." And at that point they might say, "Well, this is more important than those things, so do this first and then with that new knowledge, what is your new deadline?" And they might say like, "Okay, instead of end of week I can get it, you know, two days earlier than that." It's like, "Okay, how many actual hours do you think this work will take?" And they might say like, "Well, I think it'll probably take four hours." It's like, "Okay, well, it's noon now, so why isn't it at 4:00 today?" Right? And I think somebody who's willing to continue to ask these questions and they're like, "Well, I could do it, you know, today, it's I just wanted to give myself some time."

1:54It's like, "Well, why?" Right? And so I think that's that consistent pulling forward. And the thing is it's like it's almost like mini confrontational conversations that I think are required in order to move an entire organization at breakneck speed. I mean, I look at Elon a lot, you know, as an you know, inspiration from a business perspective. And all of his competitors talk about that, just like the maniacal sense of urgency that that he carries. And I think a lot of it is that, it's just like consistently challenging like, "What would it take?

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