You see, success isn't some mysterious mountain reserve for the chosen few.

It's not a trick of fate or luck.

It's not for the lucky, the born rich, the well connected.

No success is a decision.

A decision made not once, but daily, quietly, relentlessly, in the unseen hours, in the uncomfortable moments, in the choices

no one claps for.

Every day is a vote for your future.

Every small step, a silent declaration.

I'm not staying where I am.

How many songs do you think you wrote until you got your first hit?

Oh man.

Genuinely from probably around high school, like early on high school,

I was probably making a song a day every day.

I'm still kind of doing that.

So I guess whatever calculation that adds up to, probably thousands.

Probably realistically, yeah.

It's been multiple years.

I was making sometimes two songs a day.

Yeah, I would say probably thousands of songs

before I've had my first, my first cut, my first global number one, yeah.

Were there a lot of songs that were quote on, I want to say,

quote unquote, I want to say, quote unquote,

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