If I'm Timmy and future me is Dad looking back like I want to make that man proud and that

man is the only man who knows how hard I could have tried.

Only you can compare your effort to what you know you could have tried.

And I think that's like that gap is what I'm trying to close in myself.

And that's the journey I'm on right now.

And the business is just a outward manifestation of that.

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Have you seen ego lists successful people?

Totally.

Interesting.

Yeah, I mean, I don't think any human has no ego, but I think that you absolutely can have, I mean one of the most successful, actually the two largest companies in our portfolio are headed by couples, husband-wife duos, where they both are aware of their deficiencies they both cover for one another

and I would say that they are the most anxiety ridden of them of like am I doing good

enough is this right like I feel like we should be doing more like paranoia around improving the

product, the service, the culture, the business overall. Whereas the more ego-driven ones

want to reflect more of the greatness of the business onto themselves, they want to take more of the credit. They tend to like hog more of the work. They don't delegate well. They can't attract talent at scale because only assholes don't work for assholes. And so it's's like it just I think I was kind of

conflating ego with confidence to's because you're talking about self-awareness

right? Yeah well confidence I would just I would define as the percentage

likely that what you say will happen will happen.

So like if he's a confident guy, like,

and you can be confident at public speaking

and not confident in doing math,

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