What's up, Scallywax? What up? What's going on? What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the

307 podcast and your, uh, your Wednesday session. Combs check with the whole crew. We got

the whole crew in here, instructor chili, uh, president Blake, Blake R. Wright and me,

the creative director Chad. Why, why do we call chili every time instructor chili, like

it's his, uh, surname or something. That's just the way it is, man. He can't be a prophetic

chili or not instructor chili. That's just what he has to. That's a big, uh, that's a,

that's a big shoe to feel right there, son. I see. That's right. I'm instructor chili

all the time. As far as I'm concerned, you are steady instructor. As far as I'm concerned,

uh, by the way, speaking of instructing what I'm going to do a, uh, Wednesday show for you guys

coming up soon on how to beat, how to be a good teacher. All right. So that's coming

up just to let y'all know today's show is going to be all about, um, our take on comparing

yourself to others or what do you, how do you react to the opinions of others? All right.

So pretty good topic in my opinion. Yeah. Uh, I know I've got a lot of stories around

this conversation. Um, I want to share a few quotes with you guys real quick that, uh,

so I'm doing some reading before we dig in to comparing yourself to others, a few impactful

quotes from, uh, the first one is from a book called John Adams. Uh, John Adams. If

y'all don't know who John Adams is, there's a really cool documentary about him. I think

it's on Netflix. It was really good. But this is the book. This is a quote from his wife.

And he's writing this to, or she's writing this to John Adams. She says, you cannot be,

I know, nor do I wish to see you an inactive spectator. We have too many high sounding

words and too few actions that correspond with them. And I just thought that was really

impactful. Um, and it's really cool to me to look at the, the way, the things they were

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