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Adam asks, I feel like I've lost my hustle.

Help. What do I do? Adam, anybody who's losing their hustle has a lot of variables and there's a lot of variables in this episode.

This is the variable episodes where there's a lot of context posts. It's not just direct answers today.

Listen, you might not be passionate about your North Star anymore.

I've been going through something. Let me actually break some shattering news here for the first time in my life.

I've been thinking about weird things like sabbaticals and building a business school in Haiti for five years.

I love, listen, I'm still all about buying the New York Jets.

It's the process of that and the game.

But it's amazing for me to be in tune with myself.

The maturity, as you get older, just like my kids are six and three and they're interesting.

They're interesting. I start projecting, what do they look like at 13 and 15?

It'd be really cool to, I don't believe in the school system as much as everybody.

I just take them and go do something rogue. Just different things. You just evolve.

You might have just lost your North Star. The thing that you thought you were going for might not be.

It's why I was always happy that I didn't want a million bucks or I didn't want fame or I didn't want a car or a private plane or these little things.

It was fun to be like, I want to buy the Jets and what that always meant to me is I want the process of buying the Jets.

Which means I get the hustle forever because that's who I am.

Maybe you've lost who you are or what you want or maybe you've accomplished kind of or maybe you feel it's achievable.

I would be crushed if I thought what I wanted to achieve was super achievable.

I mean, it happened to me in the wine business. It's happening at Vayner.

As Vayner is becoming a player in the agency world and we're not like, now we're like, oh.

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