What is up everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and CEO of Morning Brew coming to you with another episode of the

Founders Journal, My Daily Diary, made public for the world where I talk about the most important moment in my day behind the

scenes at Morning Brew. Today we're going to talk about two occurrences in the last

two days where I believe my ego got in the way of my learning and I want to talk about what I learned from that so you can think about these things in the context of your own career. Let's hop into it.

How does this come up?

Where did your ego come into play?

So you know, I was thinking about what are general things that I've learned over the last week or what are general conversations that I've found interesting

over the last few days because one thing I would say I'm I am super privileged to have

within my role is the ability to talk to really smart people.

And so as I thought about it, I thought about two specific examples

that after breaking them down, I realized how I was actually shorting myself the opportunity to learn and the

opportunity to improve Morning Brew because my ego got in the way. And so the first example

I'm going to give is, you know, we all have conversations with smart people and more importantly

we all have conversations with subject matter experts who simply know more about a given topic or

domain because that person spends all of their time 24 hours a day

thinking about that thing when you're not thinking about that thing. And so that was

especially relevant for me early this week.

I was lucky enough to have a conversation with the founder of a disruptive retail company,

a company that rolled out instead of charging premium dollar for apparel,

charging a membership that you have access to and then you pay for a parallel at cost.

It's a phenomenal concept.

It's basically the Costco model, but for retail.

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