Aggression is one of the last dirty words in our culture.

You can be crass, you can be rude, you can even be profane, but, oh, aggressive, don't be

aggressive, except it's wrong, dead wrong.

I promise you nothing of meaning and transcendence will come into your life passively.

It's time for you to get into the arena to push back against a passive, mediocre existence.

I'm Brian Toam.

This is the aggressive life with Brian Tome.

One of the themes that has been very common in these podcasts is the role of decisions. It is our decisions that will define our future.

The best CEOs aren't even necessarily the ones that make the best decisions. The best CEOs are

ones, though, that make decisions. Compare that to today. Everyone wants

to put off decisions. We want to put off asking somebody to marry me. We want to put off declaring

our major. We want to, we want to put off choosing which house we want to buy. We want to put

off the decision of children, when to have children.

We just want to delay, delay, delay.

If it's an intentional decision to delay, that's okay.

But simply delaying because you can't make a decision, that's not being aggressive.

I think our guest today is going to teach us something about this.

He has a track record of making wise decisions for the long term.

From what little I know about him, his decisions also tend to be very unconventional.

Find me a person who makes unconventional decisions, and I'll find you a person who's going

on a different path, is being aggressive, and his life is going to matter. Conventional decisions

might not be great. It's a conventional decision to have a car payment for the rest of your

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