It's painful when people around you are saying that you're not capable or you're not going to be successful in something.

And it can really deeply impact not only the way that you view your success externally,

but also who you view yourself as going forward. I'm going to do. 5 to 10 years. That seems like a reasonable amount of time to commit to achieving your goal and to say, you know what, no matter what, I'm going to see it through at least of the first five years.

And here's where I want to be very clear about something. And I want you to be uncompromised when it comes to your goals, but extremely adaptive and flexible when it comes to how you achieve that goal.

Be flexible about the process.

So I don't mean to say like, you know what, I tried door-to-door sales for five years,

I got nowhere, This is the dumbest

I ever. I didn't get to my goal. Well if door-to-door sales doesn't work, do

an inbound marketing campaign. Do direct mail. do something different, try something, just do it differently and find a way

to make it work. People look at it, it's like, well, you quit blind, didn't you? I guess in a way I did. So how do you know when to quit? How do you know

when to get out? And so I want to be clear about something. Now I want to pull this

into the deep waters to see if we can uncover some nuggets of truth,

whether you agree with me or disagree or agree with Nitty or whatever, I think it's important

for us to get there so we can finally move past this conversation. So here's the thing. I'm working in my business. I started in 1995 as I mentioned.

December 95 we incorporate I'm running this company called Blind.

And during the 20 plus years of running this company,

we reinvented ourselves many times.

We started as a creative agency,

a visual communication company, pretty generic, really

in focus. Pretty early on, I think about a year into it, I'm like, I just need to

focus on motion design. This seems really fun, seems really interesting, and the trend line

seemed to be pointing upwards. I want to go all in on this, so I stopped doing the work and I do this.

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