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You're part of a team whether you know it or not. One question we hear the comedian Mark Marin ask a lot of stand-ups and actors at the beginnings of his interviews is,

who did you come up with? Who were your guys? By that, he means who were the comedians starting out around the same time as you? Who was there at the beginning with you?

It's interesting how almost every one of Marin's guests seems to be part of some kind of a cohort, fellow comedians or performers who cut their teeth in the same clubs or the same theaters at the same time.

You can look at their careers and see how many of them got big breaks around the same time and develop their careers along similar lines.

There might have been some cut-throat competition between them, but as the years passed it became clear that they all shared a common origin, almost as if they were part of the same graduating class.

In a way, this is just another illustration of that stoic concept of simp-ethia, that whether we know it or not we're all on some kind of team, all part of some collective that is much bigger than us.

It's easy to lose sight of this, of course, when we are fighting for the number one spot or trying to get noticed. But that's only because each of us is naturally self-obsessed.

But anyone with some distance, anyone in the audience or in the press can't miss it. We are shaping the scene we are in just as it is shaping us.

Our fate is bound up with other people and their gain is not our loss. Quite the contrary, we help each other and help the world when we excel and fulfill our potential.

We are all part of a scene. We all came up and are coming up with a cohort. Even the truly innovative Mavericks did it, Elon Musk, for instance, comes from the so-called PayPal Mafia.

Try to spend some time thinking about this today. What scene are you in? Who else is in your graduating class? Who are your guys?

Eventually you'll come to appreciate being a part of it and with time you'll understand and be grateful to have shared the stage with these folks. Everyone does, that's guaranteed.

What's not promised are the lazy nostalgia filled days of old age. So why wait to appreciate them? Why let decades pass when you could do it right now?

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From Wondery comes a new series, flipping the bird, Elon versus Twitter. A story about what happens when the richest man on the planet decides to acquire a powerful social media company in the name of free speech. But does he have what it takes?

It started off promising.

Or is this all just about Elon?

He's essentially mad that his tweets aren't performing as well as he would expect them to. But really just felt like, okay, this really is just a platform being ruled by a dictator who does things on his own limbs.

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