What is up everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and CEO of Morning Brew coming to you with another episode of The Founders Journal, My Daily Audio Diary, made public for the world, where I talk about the biggest moments, thoughts,

wins and losses behind the scenes at Morning Brew. As always, I am joined by Josh Kaplan, my co-pilot of the show.

And today we're getting a little bit theoretical, but I think it's going to be a fun little

shortcut for you to think about your work and how you can be a better professional. Let's hop into it.

Conceptual. Are you a philosopher now? Where are we going?

I'm a philosopher. Does that make you a Pink Boy or a thought boy? I don't know what the right word is.

Would you agree that this is a little bit more think boyish or a conceptual? I think so.

I said draw it out. Why is this coming to your mind like meaning this like mental graph that we're about to put out into the world?

Yeah, so let's do it. So I'm going to share my screen, which we haven't done before so let's see if this works.

For everyone who's listening to the podcast

after recording, don't worry about seeing the visual.

We're going to explain this out loud

so you can visualize it for yourself.

So I'm not sure why this topic came up in my mind today, but it was something that I've thought about over the years as a professional, where I personally find for myself that sometimes because I like to be as open-minded as possible to hear other people's opinions.

I try to be empathetic and understanding people's points of view given the context that they're sitting in that I find it sometimes difficult to have really strongly held beliefs and I've kind of wrestled with this over the years.

How do I have really strong opinions and strongly held beliefs

about the media industry, the world entrepreneurship,

while also having an appreciation and openness to other

people's opinions because over the years what I've found is that when you work around really

smart people you start to find that you don't at least I don't find that a lot of opinions

are wrong.

Like there are very few opinions that I believe are flat out wrong.

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