Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of AMA. I'm your host Tom Billu and I'm going

to be answering your questions. And by the way, if you ever want to get one of your questions

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the subject line. AMA man, Chase will pull out the best questions. So submit those any

topic, anything you want to know about, go ahead and submit those. All right, first question

is from Berndin O'Brien. Seth Godin recently pointed out an interesting matter of perception

on his podcast, namely that learning to juggle isn't really about learning to keep several

balls in the air. It actually starts with learning about how to catch. I.e., if you focus

too much on the complex looking end goal, you will miss that it boils down to relatively

simple skills. Do you ever apply this type of thinking when beginning to approach a new

skill or business problem? And the answer is yes, absolutely. And I think that people oftentimes

allow themselves to be overwhelmed by taking in the entire gestalt of a thing, whatever

it is that they're trying to get great at, trying to look at it all at once, thinking

about how far they're going to have to go from where they are today in order to accomplish

that thing. And I think that is a mistake. I think that you want to be inspired by where

you're going to go. I think you want to be inspired by the person that you're going

to become in order to pull that off. But I think you need to break it down into very

small manageable action items that you can take right now today in order to begin stepping

down that road. But like it sounds like Seth is saying and Seth is brilliant. And basically

every word of his mouth can be taken at just face value. The guy is absolutely brilliant

at this stuff. I think he's right about breaking it down into smaller goals, focusing on

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