And thinking about it like that has given me this persistent and ever present scorecard or third party that's like no one's watching, which means now you have to work because otherwise you're full of sh*t.
And so it's this continuous reinforcing cycle of the me and other me holding the whip behind me to see how much I can take, but with each lash of the whip that I take, learning that I can take it and continue to trudge on. And so as long as you keep going, you bear witness to yourself of what you are capable of.
And so it's like we want these traits, but each of the traits has a price tag attached to it and it's just like, do you want to pay the price tag to get the thing?
And so I think if if people reframed the period of life that they're going through as the price that they're paying out of their wallet, but the wallet is their time, it's the seconds of life that they're trading for it, then I think more people will be willing to make the trade, because at least when I look at myself like when I'm 80 something years old, I'm looking back on my life, I want to have these traits.
But if the goal is to work as hard as you possibly can, then the only real output we have is who we become along the way, then it's something that I can win or measure myself against every day in real time throughout the day, which is how hard am I working? Because that is the goal.
Because I know that when I look back on my life, the days that I loved the most were days when I had nothing left in the tank. And so then the goal becomes to empty the tank.
And that means that in the beginning, and just seeing how high I can rev the engine, but as it become more advanced, it's like, all right, well, now we've got turns and then it's turns and elevation, and then it's turns and elevation without guardrails because we have risk.