Today's episode is about one word, excellence.

Whenever I hear these stories about people who are excellent or what it took to become excellent or what it took to make something happen that was truly excellent, it makes me want to run through a wall for the rest of the day. So that's the gift to a listener. If you listen to this in the morning, you're going to want to run through a wall after you listen to this. I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like no days off. On the road, let's travel. Never looking back. Would you like some FOMO pancakes? Because I'm about to drizzle some FOMO PANcakes right in front of you. For some reason, when do you say the word drizzle, I ought to, I'm out. You're out. I've never been able to pull that word off.

Yeah, I don't think anyone has. We, as you know, we're hosting our annual event. Me and Ben host this annual event called Hoop Group with Mr. Beast. And we're hosting it in about a week. And I was just catching up with Ben. Ben takes the charge on like everything in your life. Yeah, yeah, doing the things. And I just like keep lobbying in ideas. And then I'm basically the most annoying guy. It's like he says, hey, here's everything we got. And I'm like, can't we just make it better? He's like, okay, well, how? I'm like, I don't know, just think big. And I say generic

things like that and I'll be like, you know, I just got off the podcast with this guy. What would he do? And then he's like, I don't know, what did he tell you about? Like, I don't know, go listen to that. You get inspired. But it is level. By the way, you call it lobbying ideas. someone, I said to my coach their day, and she goes, that's called swooping and pooping.

Yeah, when you fly in and's called swooping and pooping.

Yeah, when you fly in and you just leave a bunch of crap.

Exactly.

They've been working hard, and then you just swoop in and you poop.

But I do it in the name of high standards.

And that's how you get away with anything.

That's how you get away with being an asshole.

You just say, no, I'm not an asshole.

I have high standards. But these, my standards have been exceeded by what Ben has pulled off with this event. I just need to tell you some things about this event. Okay. For those who don't know, for the last few years, every year, we host a basketball camp. So it's kind of like a basketball camp for billionaires. It was the idea, the dream. There's lots of different conferences, there's lots of different networking events, and I hate

conferences, and I hate network events.

And despite me talking a lot on this podcast, I'm actually kind of an introvert.

I don't really enjoy going to events.

And we wanted to do something, but the idea of just creating yet another thing that was

very much like everything else that existed was not appealing. Were you guys just sitting around? Our conference is dumb. Well, it started with, we should do one, man. We have a big audience. We know all these interesting people. What if we hosted an event? And it's like, great. Like a networking event. Yay. It's like, no, no, it could be like, I don't know, like people come and talk. And we're like, oh, a conference, yay.

And so then I learned this from my first business. This guy told me, like, irritation leads to innovation. So back then it was a restaurant business and he was telling me, I was saying how much I hate food delivery. And he's like, well, that's the opportunity. Make food delivery. That doesn't suck. and suddenly you'll take something that's really bad.

And just by like making it not suck, the gout. make food delivery, that doesn't suck. And suddenly you'll take something that's really bad.

And just by like making it not suck, the gap between where it normally is and where you are is really big. And so similarly, the idea with this was, well, what would be a conference we would

want to go to? And so we just started spitballing with like a childlike energy where it was like I don't know like

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