for me I've relieved a lot of the pressure of my life so that I could make better decisions

by zooming way out and thinking 10,000 years from now will this matter?

And then if I can make the decision of like good or bad based on my new context that I created, then I can live a life a lot easier.

The wealthiest people in the world see business as a game.

This podcast, The Game, is my attempt at documenting the lessons I've learned on my way to

building acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio.

My hope is that you use the lessons to grow your business and maybe someday soon, partner

with us to get to $100 million and beyond.

I hope you share and enjoy. When you're building a business or you're building your career, there are stressors that come into play,

right, and how we manage the circumstances or the conditions that come to us

dictates how our life turns out. Like, everybody has bad stuff happen, and I say that as a pause

because you probably believed and nodded your head like, yeah, everybody has bad stuff happen, but that's not true.

Everyone has stuff happen and then we choose to make it bad or good.

And so I'll tell you a quick backstory and then I'll tell you how I deal with it.

So imagine for a second two children that are playing and then one child tells the other child,

your nose is really big or you're fat.

And what's interesting is that the child who hears it is unaffected and the child who says it is unaffected.

They're like you're fat. He's like, huh.

Two people communicate. Parent comes in and overhears it. And she's like, oh my God, takes the

child that that was called fat,

comforts them, gives them the expectation

that they should be upset, and then tells the other one

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