In the long run, passivity won't pay off. It never pays off. If you want a life of meaning and transcendence, you're going to have to move.

Aggression doesn't have to be toxic or damaging. Healthy aggression risks.

It builds new things.

It breaks through barriers.

It's the key to living a life that matters.

I'm Brian Tom.

And this is the aggressive life.

Music Welcome to another episode of the aggressive life.

Well, I've been looking forward to this episode for a long, long time.

In large part, because I've been looking forward to what this episode represents

for a long, long time. One of the projects has been most near and dear to me over the last

couple years has been a project called Phantom Lake. Now, traces back to how I fell in love with

motorcycles, adventure riding, and every kind of subset in there. If you look at my history,

I had basically been a guy who kept my head down and just doing what guys should be doing,

taking care of their family, trying to build their business or their professional life,

not doing anything that's too immoral, and doing life and

following the script. And then I accidentally got into motorcycling. I had sold my motorcycle

after I had been married for about four weeks because I needed to get a couple hundred bucks in

cash. And I never went to a motorcycle again from

1988 until about, I don't know, shoot, 2002, 2003 or something like that. And I went on a

bike and it was great, did a ride with some friends. We rented Harleys and it was really cool and

ended up getting a Harley sometime later. And then, I don't know, it was okay, but it was getting a little boring,

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