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In part two of this two-part chat with Paul, we cover his days working at McKinsey and how he

managed to make the difficult transition into private equity as a consultant.

We talk all about the private equity recruiting process,

imposter syndrome, meditation, and how he was able to find balance. In this part two,

Paul has some really great foundational advice for young motivated go-getters. So make sure

you all stay till the end. Enjoy. All right, Paul, so we left off when you had just received your offer at McKinsey,

or you're just about to start at McKinsey.

So why don't we start there?

What was, what was it like?

Yeah, McKinsey was a great experience I think it was definitely

you know everything that people had promised in terms of the kind of learning curve

that you get working in this kind of industry super smart people really interesting

all kinds of backgrounds.

You know, you're kind of trained over the next several years to think in a very structured

way that kind of almost like the financial modeling equivalent to banking is like structured

thinking and problem solving within consulting. You're given way more responsibility

than any 22-year-old should have. Economy, I feel like. But it's good. You learn a lot.

And it's challenging, too. I mean, you know, you're, as someone coming right out of school,

like maybe you have some internship experience but you

really got to learn how to do this not for 10 weeks but for you know years and how do you sustain

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