When our backs are against the wall, we're forced to become more.

When the clock is ticking, we are tasked with finding answers that hide among us.

It's in the darkness, we light and while lost we find ourselves.

The paradox of life is that from our pain comes our purpose, our evolution, and our greatness.

I love thinking back to about 2014, making my way around Boston, having just quit my job,

essentially purposeless, clinging to a YouTube channel and a podcast idea that I would name

your world within.

And why? Why do I think back? Why does this mean everything to me?

Well, because at the time, I knew nothing. I understood nothing.

Nothing about speaking or media, audio, video, nothing about running a business.

But more importantly, I knew very little about life and what's truly required to progress in a world with infinite moving parts.

I didn't know that my lack of understanding is what made everything feel overwhelming and complex

and that it was up to me to simplify.

I didn't know the extent to which I'd have to befriend failure.

And that was the most eye-opening realization. Because when you gravitate towards a risk-free

existence and you box yourself in as I had for so long, of course you don't get the upside,

but you also don't fail as dramatically either. Life was a simple game of cause and effect.

Do work, get result, not much room for more than that.

And so stepping outside that box in the way that I did, change some rules.

I learned some things.

First, you can spend time on something. You can exhaust energy on something

and get nothing in the short term for your efforts.

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