Andy Stumpf

I mean, probably from the beginning.

I think one of the biggest mistakes people would make is if they would look at a job like the one I used to have and think that the people who do it are not normal people.

I was talking with Chris Williamson about this, and it's a mistake that people make.

There's no Captain America shield and cape and cowl that you actually wear.

The things they ask you to do are sometimes pretty nutty.

But after that,

You go take your gear off, clean yourself up, get some food, get together with the guys, and you just talk about normal day-to-day shit.

If you were having an argument with your wife before you went out on an operation, you're coming back to that.

If your house had burned down, which I wish I could say I didn't know somebody's house burned down, but I did.

They got that notification shortly before we went out on objective.

hopefully didn't allow that to invade their mental thought process during, but when they came back, that's what they're dealing with.

Then you come back from deployment and you're presented with all of those things.

It's just, it is such a mistake to think that there are people out there

who have everything figured out or that are impervious to the things that are damaging to you as the person.

I started doing Q and A sessions on Friday for my show because I kept getting just this volume and wave of emails.

And at first I wasn't really trying to, you know, tranche them into buckets.

And I thought if I started doing the Friday episodes, it would decrease, but instead it multiplied them by orders of magnitude.

And I realized there really were some deep,

You know, one of them is I just don't know how to get started on my goals.

But another one is and this is the most dangerous one.