Aaron Machbitz

But I think now we're learning in our culture, which is good that there can be different parts of us that we give our full effort to just not at the same time.

And I think that's that can be important as well, because, yeah, we should we should as humans want to express, as you say, the best version of ourselves.

And that might be pursuing something really deeply and really far to like the ends of our capacity and then expressing that to the whole world, whether that's

you know, being a president of being a teacher, whatever the case may be.

And so there is sort of a give and take there.

I don't think anything really is black and white.

There are certain things that are black and white, but there's a lot of nuance when it comes to like, you know, human flourishing and things that are right for you and how you want to pursue those things.

But I think having like a base layer, a foundational layer of like, these are the core values that I want to represent every day.

And then I can put them in whatever domain that I'm trying to excel in.

I think that's important.

Right.

Yeah.

I mean, if you reach the, if you reach the mountain top and you're the only one on the mountain top by yourself, was it really worth it?

You know what I mean?

Uh, no, probably not.

Probably not.

I would say, you know, but really you can only realize that once you get there.

So it's like kind of this whole thing about, uh, about life.

It's like,

well, what about the relationships that I lost along the way?