Do you ever wonder how many times you gave up right before you were about to succeed?

It's an impossible question because you can't possibly know the answer.

There was an anecdote that was said to me once that was many of life's greatest accomplishments

were achieved by people too ignorant of the odds

to know that they were quote unquote impossible.

I just love the concept.

And when you sit with it,

it's a riveting thought.

Like, how many times did you stop just short of what maybe wouldn't have brought you to the peak of the mountain, but would have created that momentum or, you know, been a slingshot for that trajectory. There's kind of a

funny story with one of my good friends. He's quite a bit older than me, but back in the day in

Florida, we were business partners on a few things, still great friends with him. And, you know,

there was some overlap in our circle, obviously. And, you know, there was some overlap in our circle, obviously.

And, you know, down the street there was a, like, a yoga slash interval training studio.

And we went to that a few times.

And he met this girl there who, you know, her and a few other people sort of became our circle.

Like we'd have coffee every once in a while together, all of us.

And, you know, he was all about this girl.

And I checked with him, by the way. It's okay that I'm telling this story. But, you know,

he would ask her out or allude to like, you know, grabbing a drink or dinner. And it was like,

she just kind of wasn't, wasn't hearing it, wasn't feeling it, which is just, you know,

that's life in the big city, right?

Sometimes it, sometimes you shoot your shot and it works.

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