What's up everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

Welcome back to Founder's Journal, My Personal Audio Diary, where I give you the business

builder the tools you need to think better in order to build better, whether that's building

a business, a team, or a new product. Today, I'm talking about my playbook for building

dozens of meaningful relationships over six years of building a business.

Let's hop into it.

Something I've realized about myself is that I tend to overvalue the things that I'm not

great at and I undervalue the things that I am great at.

And this is something that most of us probably do.

Our brains always default to focusing on where the grass is greener.

For me, that's saying, oh, that person is an incredible technical founder or, oh,

that person is wildly focused and efficient in the way that they work.

Why can't I be that way?

And at the same time, we ignore the thing that we're great at because it's so innate to

our being that we don't realize that it's unique or valuable to other people.

For me, one of those traits is relationship building.

I have always been a relationship builder and I'm really good at it.

Now, I don't say that to brag or flex my network, but honestly,

because I never give myself credit for that being a superpower of mine.

I forget that it's an incredibly important quality to have in work and in life.

And because it doesn't feel like a hard skill, like product management or engineering

or financial modeling, I fail to acknowledge that it's a strength of mine.

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