If I could go back, I'd tell younger me, you're going to do some pretty great things, but you do not need to be great. All you have to do is be yourself. That will always be enough. You only start really liking stuff when you get good at it, in my opinion. And you only get good at it by doing it a lot of times before you're good at it. This is why I'm a big believer in this, is that when you are starting out, I think you gotta find the thing that's the pain.

And like, pain motivates significantly faster and stronger than pleasure does. Because you're sad, now you're going to make a bunch of bad decisions because you're sad. No, no, it doesn't work like that. You're sad. Okay. You get emotional sometimes. Okay. Now get control of your emotions and carry on with your life.

And sometimes you're going to get hit with those waves. And that's okay.

I don't like the trend in this circle, men's motivation circle. I don't like the hustle culture.

I don't agree with it because I think it's out of balance.

I think young men need to know that, hey, it's okay for you to sit down and to chill and to think.

It's how you handle your sufferings.

You know, when you're going through something really challenging, how do you show up within it?

Do you choose to become a victim of complaining and misery and shitty or do you find meaning in how you show up in the suffering?

Didn't think we're going to go here.

She has brought out the absolute best in me, like in just about every way.

She just, she believed them.

And I think that's what most guys were.

True.

That is true wealth, the knowledge that you have enough, that you don't need to chase

more and that if you do chase more it needs to be grounded in

something more meaningful than just chasing money if you are chasing ambition because you're

grounded in your purpose because you want to go and create something meaningful for the world you

want to go create a more meaningful life for your family because you feel like you can spread ideas

that will positively impact people,

that's a great reason to go and chase something bigger. But chasing more money is just a road to

nowhere. Kill the boy. And let the man be born. The difference is how do you look at it?

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