We have reprogrammed our lives to be remote and so we are stuck in patterns that are really difficult to get out of.

I actually, I don't know if I'm going to get it, but I think that Michael Hobart, the CEO and co-founder of Strava, with over 76 million athletes.

You track you activities, turn those activities into a post, that's when the Strava magic happens.

If you want to be as good as you possibly can be,

you have to strive to be the best.

But can you be OK also with not actually

achieving the goal of being the top of everybody?

Win or lose, that's the feeling you're looking for.

How are you doing in your personal life? My wife is diagnosed with a terminal

illness in September of 2013. I think I prepared a lot for how to live my life

caring for her. I wasn't prepared for how to live my life caring for her. I wasn't prepared for how to live my life when she was gone.

I had to not rediscover who I am. I had to define who I am that doesn't happen overnight

if what you do every day is put a little effort into being kind to the people who are

important to you in your life and the complete strangers, then that's where you're going to find the meaning.

So without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett, and this is the diary of a CEO, USA Edition.

I hope nobody's listening.

But if you are, then please keep this to yourself. Michael, I tend to believe that people have, I know I eventually developed it, but I tend to believe that people have some kind of hypothesis

as to what factors or experiences from their earliest years shaped them most significantly

into the person they are today.

Do you have a hypothesis like that?

I think I have several, starting with how my family felt, to me me being the youngest of the five kids in my family felt like it was

pulled apart by geography between Sweden and the United States at an early age.

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