As Albert Einstein said, try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

This is something that I think about a lot. At the end of the day success is incredibly motivating and

accomplishing your goals and your dreams is something that I wanted to do since I was a little kid that's been a driving force in my life.

But through all of that, the times that I felt happy is the times that I felt most secure, the times that my anxiety and my stress had been at zero.

Are the times where I felt like I was being most true to myself, where I was trying to really become a person of substance.

I wasn't looking for something extrinsic. I was focused inward in trying to develop the person that I'm becoming, that I had some code that I was living by, that I was really deciding not just what outwardly success looks like.

But what does it mean to be a good person? What does it mean to be an effective person? What does it mean to be worthy of trust?

And those things at the end of the day, those things are something that when you invest in finding value in that, that it takes you somewhere amazing.

And as Bruce Lee said, knowledge will give you power, but character will give you respect.

And at the end of the day, I really can't think of anything better than that. I can't think of anything that will keep me company when I'm alone, when there's nothing but silence around.

When all I can hear, the sounds of my own thoughts, the only thing that is going to bring me or you comfort is respect, is self-love, is knowing who you are really, and knowing that you're true to that, even when nobody's looking at that concept, that notion of having a guiding light, a principle, something by which you steer by.

That you are always true to, and that in your moments of stress, chaos, confusion, of desire, that in your moments of deepest desire, that you're still true to that, that all you think about is that North Star, of being that person that you want to be, when you let that be your guiding light, when you stay true to that, nothing can hurt you.

Because nothing will be able to make you feel badly about yourself. Because once you know who you are, and you're true to it, nothing else matters.

Thank you.