Let's say you've got $10,000 saved up, that's your life savings.

And let's say that you lose $1,000.

That would be pretty traumatic. That's 10% of everything you have. Now the question is, what does it change about what you do? Does it change the food you eat? Does it change the car you drive? Does it change where you live? It usually changes absolutely nothing. choose to feel terrible about it because for whatever reason this is what we choose to do.

The key word there is choice. We choose that. We choose to then feel

terrible. And so equally, we could say, I choose to not feel terrible because it changes nothing

about my life. What's going on, everyone? I had a long conversation with an old time friend

over, you know, a few weeks back.

And there was a statement that he said that has really gotten my head turning.

And what I want to do is reach, kind of read that story to you, and then kind of talk about it.

And so the big theme of this, though, is that no one cares, just when. And so I remember I asked him, I said, hey, do you mind if I make a piece of content about this? He was like, sure, but what about, you know, for more long conversation? I said, you said this thing, if I'm going to fail, I'd rather it be on me. And I thought about that a lot. And I was like, and he's like, well, what about that, you know, was interesting to you?

He said, I honestly needed to have that happen to realize that I can't do it on my own. Otherwise, it'd be easy to put that blame on somebody else. And so I responded with, how could you put blame on someone else? And he said, well, you know, saying like, hey, I failed because I used someone else's system or I failed because, you know, so and so didn't keep their end of the deal or didn't do their responsibilities. Or I failed because they ruined my business by doing X, Y, and Z. And they're all basically just like copouts, you know, when your mind gets kind of weak, right? They're kind of like excuses. But I hate to say that I've witnessed this happened too many times. And this is all him saying this. And I said, huh, I said,

false funny because it just doesn't matter. Right. Like no one, no one thinks to themselves like,

hey, that worked out really well for him. I wonder whose fault it is. Right. Whose fault is it that it

worked out? We only think

fault in the negative. We don't think fault's in the positive, right? And so anyways, I bring this up to him

and he says, I have a visceral understanding of the fact that I need better systems, you know,

better leverage and better people around me to, you know, make that next chapter happen. And so I have

to stop hiding. And so in thinking about this I was like

no one asks whose fault it is when it works and the reality is that two years from now like when

you think about the championship Super Bowl game or the quarterbacks who've who've hit these

records no one's like hey you know that guy got really good calls from the ref hey that you know it was really raining that day no one's like, hey, you know, that guy got really good calls from the ref.

Hey, that, you know, it was really raining that day. No one remembers. They just remember who won.

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