372 Perfection Is a Lie — Progress Is the Goal
Modern Craftsman
Modern Craftsman
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🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Nick and Tyler go deep in this episode—no guests, no scripts, just a raw conversation about the regrets that shaped them. From personal struggles with self-worth to professional burnout from trying to please every client, they unpack what perfectionism costs... and what progress really looks like in life and in the trades.
Show Notes:
00:00 – Personal & Professional Regrets: Why This Episode Matters
06:42 – Reclaiming Your Voice as a Leader
15:36 – When Success Becomes a Trap
27:08 – Letting Go of the Hustle Culture
34:17 – Are You Building for the Right Person?
41:52 – Tyler’s Wake-Up Call on Client Burnout
52:40 – Money, Meaning & the Misunderstood Trade Business
1:12:48 – Tyler’s Regret: Walking Away from Wrestling
1:13:04 – Nick’s Regret: Seeking Validation
1:13:33 – What We’d Tell Our Younger Selves
1:16:57 – Confidence, Commitment & Public Accountability
1:24:19 – The Path Forward: Less Noise, More Clarity
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| 0:00.0 | If I could go back and not change the outcome, but give myself advice, I'd look myself in the mirror and I'd say you're carrying all of this and you think it makes you strong, but instead it's just a shield. |
| 0:11.9 | Tyler. |
| 0:12.9 | What's up? |
| 0:13.8 | What's up? |
| 0:15.5 | You sent me an email earlier and I was in the middle of something to which I had to hit pause on |
| 0:23.9 | and ruminate, I think that's the right word, on your questions because I didn't realize |
| 0:30.6 | we were going to go so deep into regret. |
| 0:37.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:37.9 | And so today we're going to talk about personal regret and professional regret and talk about things that we, I've never publicly talked about. |
| 0:49.7 | And then even at the end of this podcast, we, AI, almost makes me cry. |
| 0:58.6 | I'm going to. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.7 | That's just the truth. |
| 1:01.4 | I don't know where this came from today. |
| 1:04.3 | Just something that I've been thinking a lot about and decided that I wanted to sit |
| 1:08.7 | down and craft a conversation around this. |
| 1:12.1 | And I think that, you know, while doing so, I realize that there's so many valuable |
| 1:16.2 | takeaways for our listeners. |
| 1:18.5 | And I hope that this conversation and if we put together like a worksheet with these |
| 1:24.0 | questions and an exercise that you can do yourself, I hope that our listeners find a ton of motivation and a deeper understanding of not only who we are, but who they are as people |
| 1:37.1 | and that we are all absolutely imperfect. We do not have it figured out and that we're just |
| 1:43.8 | constantly trying to create a life worth of progress and not necessarily perfection. |
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