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I think so many people are keyboard
activists right everybody's good at

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sending a tweet about how the world
should be and nobody's doing anything

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about it and that just that is just very
much human nature we've gotten soft as a

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culture yes you know I mean of course
we've gotten soft as a culture in the

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u.s. because the US has had an
incredible two hundred year run right

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like this is just what happens you know
so as a culture you know I can't speak

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for you know people that live in the
Amazon River and I can't speak for you

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know people that still live in Belarus
but the American culture is soft and

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that's a great thing that means there's
been enormous amounts of prosperity but

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let's not be naive
I mean people literally complain when

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somebody gives them the wrong amount of
like extra cream in a Starbucks $6

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coffee

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you

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my lack of interest in complaining is so
high and when I watch what people

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complain about it breaks my heart
because they completely lack perspective

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and i genuinely believe my happiness and
optimism comes from my perspective even

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in political unrest times like right now
a lot of people very bent out of shape

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but the reality is is that it just never
been better to be a human being it's

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that's just the truth
that's just data that's that's reality

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and yeah I mean it's just a very fun
time to be alive

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and I think the way people look at the
world right now because it's such an

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incredible time is actually the quickest
tell to who they are if you think it

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sucks but it's bad
you have losing pessimistic DNA and if

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you think it's awesome and phenomenal
you have optimistic winning DNA and I

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believe that to be true and so that's
where we're at we're beating ourselves

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up like everybody sucks that's something
right like we all have shortcomings and

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we all have strengths and for me it's
like why don't we just audit that like

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why don't we just look at it that way
and be like alright well I'm good at

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this but I'm not gonna dad like and then
and then and then I only focus what I'm

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good at right like I don't dwell that I
can't fix shit around the house I call

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somebody to fix him like I'm not like
I'm not a man I don't give a fuck like

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you know like like you know like I don't
I don't get it like we all like I also

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think it's awesome that I'm so
emotionally stable and I'm the emotional

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backbone of everybody is that what a
dude's supposed to do like like these

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cliches these stereotypes they're so
silly I'm fully in love with myself but

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I'm also fully in love with everybody
else too right it's not like like it

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goes both ways like I tell people to buy
in to be that work for me it's cuz I buy

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into them first like I don't need
anybody to gain trust with me I it's

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they're like I believe that the human
race is so grossly underrated we are

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good of course we have some bad there's
fucking 7 billion of us but like when

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you look at our net score it's bonkers
shit like you know what you damage we

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can be doing to each other on a hourly
basis and we don't like we're still here

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like we won were the Alpha being and
we've figured out how to stay together

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this is insane when you think about it
and yet everybody wants to dwell on like

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somebody said something mean

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if you want to be an anomaly you have to
act like one like people want all these

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special things to happen but then
they're acting like everybody else and

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that gets into this Saturdays on in your
20s like or or just like taking risks or

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things of that nature like there's
anything they take away it's like look

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like you're gonna only be so pretty
you're only gonna be so smart like you

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like there's there's things that are
gonna be natural and there's things that

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you can actually control I do believe
and I don't know if I'm right or wrong I

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don't but I do believe that work ethic
is a taught behavior it's something you

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do have more control over and you know
what really sealed a deal for me getting

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healthier I was 38 years old and didn't
come natural to me like it didn't come

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natural to me at all I hate the gym I
hate him out I hate it I don't like it I

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don't want to do it but I but I knew it
was important and somewhere around

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midway through being 38 years old I got
serious I figured out my system I made

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the financial commitment and I've won
right and I'll never lose again because

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the system was I needed to be
accountable to another human being so it

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was about Mike and now Jordan and
whoever else is my trainer I'm doing it

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almost weirdly more to not let them down
I feel like there's a shift that can

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make people work harder the big one that
I push is you're gonna die like like if

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your complaint like to me life is broken
down into complaining and not so if

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you're not complaining well then I've
never I have no advice for you I'm

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pumped like you did it like like I've
friends who make $42,000 a year work

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9:00 to 4:00
with an hour to have lunch and 45

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minutes of YouTube and ten minutes of
bullshitting and an hour of complete

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waste of time in a meeting so the kind
of working like 6:00 you know hours a

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week right
but they're pumped and-and-and they text

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me these are highschool friends and
they'll text me like how happy they are

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to be the coach of their kids baseball
team and you know like that's amazing

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like that that seems very obvious to me
like that's like that's right you know

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which is super weird I'm actually nearly
any yes you know like I it sounds cool

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like in theory right grass is always
greener right like far less pressure you

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know like like all that time with my
kids

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booth that would be cool like there's
just like all these things that I can

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justify so to me but I have friends who
have a hundred million dollars in the

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bank because of Facebook's IPO who
complain who are still hungry who want

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to do even more
who will complain to me because they

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know I work a lot about no work-life
balance and they don't get to spend

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enough time with their family and I'm
like you have a hundred million dollars

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like you could stay home like you're in
control like you don't complain about it

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you've made that choice don't bullshit
me

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like you want to spend more time with
your family spend more time with your

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family

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I'm trying to be very careful about what
I'm saying versus what I'm doing because

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that's how you get exposed and I don't
mean like people calling you out and

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being like you suck I mean to yourself I
don't want to be exposed by myself it's

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it's it's looking at yourself in the
mirror and saying like am I doing this

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right so to me there's so many people
they're talking shit about how big of an

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entrepreneur they're gonna be and how
much they're gonna achieve and they

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don't work on weekends you know I worked
every Saturday of my 20s like and I talk

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to 20 year old entrepreneurs every
single day lately I've been saying to

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them this Saturday you're gonna have
more time off than I've had in my entire

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20s on a Saturday so like before you
tell me how you're gonna be bigger than

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me start thinking about what you're
actually doing

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I'm careful to not give advice that I
know is uniquely something that I was

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gifted with like I'd how do I tell you
that

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oh here's how it actually works and it
almost started happening it didn't

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happen like I actually get goosebumps
like actually like real heavy goosebumps

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when I hear something that I know feels
right what's the advice there hey Johnny

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start getting goosebumps like I can't
there's certain things that I can't talk

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about because I know they're not
practical they're intuitive to me

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I plan to instill kindness until Achatz
I plan on instilling perspective into my

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kids I plan in instilling just being a
good human being

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I plan on making sure they don't use
their parents wealth and micro fame and

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leverage to impose them on any other
person I was petrified of that if my

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kids try to Punk their friends on my
shit I'm gonna get the fuck out of them

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like that just loser DNA you didn't do
that we right like so like I'm not

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obsessed with tactics I'm obsessed with
religion so I have a lot of wealthy

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friends at this point who think it's
smart for them to sit first class but

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the kids in coach it's a tactic they
send their kids to Africa to build a

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school for a week it's a tactic it's
like my friends that love the

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environment the number two sector in the
world that is hurting the environment is

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the fashion industry when you run the
math of what's doing bad to the earth

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it's the number two industry behind Gaza
i I don't even want to say it cuz I'm

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not sure if it's gas in oil the number
two industry the sign of the fact is the

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fashion industry so all my fancy friends
who love the environment are they

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willing to give up their fucking Louie
bags let's say right so like I think

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people talk shit so you let them sit
coach and you went first class but you

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went to you know Hawaii and eat it all
the best pluck you can't pick and choose

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to me it's binary so I don't wanna be a
hypocrite so my big thing is like look

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you need to be kind like mean mean is
just non-negotiable in our family right

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and then you just need to not be full of
shit if you want to look at daddy's

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mountain and you want to say what I did
to my dad's and that was a big mountain

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for an immigrant like wow dad did it
right if you want to say I'm gonna climb

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that and I'm gonna climb bigger awesome
like I'm pumped I'm weirdly not cheering

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for you cuz I'm I'm just a weirdly
competitive dude this is actually

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something I'm not proud of I'm
comfortable saying this and I believe

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this is a flaw but I don't want my kids
to beat me I don't like I don't I

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saying it I know this is where I get in
trouble people will take one little clip

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from one video interview and they're
like you're a bad eye it's just my truth

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I don't want to bullshit you guys like
I'm that competitive

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I just want them to be all in on them
right like I don't need them to be an

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entrepreneur I don't need them to make
me proud they don't need to go to

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Harvard they don't need to give shit
they need to be themselves all in and

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they need to be kind and I'm good

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like everybody thinks their stuff is so
good like everyday Gary my instagrams so

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on fire soda awesome
why is nobody like why am I not gaining

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followers cuz it's not awesome

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think we all think our stuff is the best
and like I get that but yeah that would

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be my advice only because that also is
liberating me everything's about

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breathing right like to me everything is
about like take full ownership for

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everything and then everything gets easy
cuz then you're in control and then

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learn how to love to lose I think that's
how that's how entrepreneurship that's

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how life is we all have losses and so I
like losses I love adversity

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I like the climb I like the chip on my
shoulder I like when people like all I

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knew and he's not that good that is like
like I'm even weirdly scared as I

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continue to ascend and I'm getting
popular and wouldn't you say the

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marketing leaning like if people start
putting these words in front of my name

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I'm like am I gonna sabotage myself to
like recorrect this like I like

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adversity so yeah all on me you know I
enjoy losses now all of a sudden like

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what you become completely invincible I
feel invincible I really genuinely

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outside of the health of myself and 20
people feel 100% invincible as a person

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I know what my intent is I want to do
good at nobody else's expense I'm far

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from perfect we all are
and so just easy it feels very light to

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live life I'm just in a good mood

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them home and I think modern-day parents
and most parents do not do that

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I think they focus on dumb shit like
grades because they are insecure and

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they want to put the bumper sticker that
their kid went to you know Stanford like

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it's real fucked up when you really
think about what's actually happening so

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much of it is misery loves company or
people reflecting of what's inside of

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them

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is the impact that you want to have on
the world same thing that attracts so

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many of millions of people to people
that are selling bullshit those same

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people are attracted to me and what I
want to do is suffocate out all those

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other people and become the Alpha of
that entire world of people that are are

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hoping and are desperate to look at me
and what I want to do is inspire two 14

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year old girls in Kansas City right now
to build a billion dollar company on

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having a bunch of employees hugging each
other in a house I think that Steve Jobs

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came along became an icon but the sad
part of that narrative was he did not

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treat his employees well he became an
icon and the narrative became and he got

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the most out of people by being a jerk
and that became romanticized and a lot

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of people in Silicon Valley today run
companies worth their mean because they

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think that's the right thing to do
because they put Steve Jobs on a

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pedestal
I want my pedestal moment I want to

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become that big and what I want to come
from that is that kids that aren't even

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born
think that they can build a five billion

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dollar company and be a great guy or
great gal I want to build the biggest

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building in town ever by just building
the biggest building in town while I

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think most people try to tear down
everybody else's building so I think

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positivity and good is practical advice
to building an empire and I want to be

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the poster child of the person that
don't biggest baddest empire and did it

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by being a good dude along the way and
not everybody's gonna be happy about

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everything I did but if it's 97% of
people talking good behind your back

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that's a real legacy and I want to do it
in a pop culture way I'm gonna do it

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anyway people have done that before just
so you know there's plenty of people

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Warren Buffett's a really good dude like
there's plenty of people that have done

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that there's a difference I want to do
it and I want to be a rock star right

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like and that's where you influence
people like you know like I want to do

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it but I also want to be the most
popular and so then that person's like

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oh I want to be him so I guess I'll be
nice like I want to literally take

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people who have DNA that's kind of nice
and make them more nice because they

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think that's how I became big so I
basically want to trick the business

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world into becoming kinder

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you