Bill Perkins

If everything's always working out and you fail, it's like, well, you never touched your limits.

You never really sent this thing until you run so hard where you throw up and you're about to pass out, which, you know, I did in college when they used to make you run, you know, back and forth.

don't know your limits right like you don't know when you're struggling with the weights right like physically but like also emotionally like until you've said i love you first and you've gone through the break and you've done everything you can for the relationship like you just don't know like this is as much as i can give in a relationship yeah right this is as much as i can do this is as far as i can go figuring out this business i need to bring in help or partners or whatever you know like all those things and so

wanting a fulfilling ride is the goal right literally the money the money is only a tool to get the fulfillment now I have fancy fulfillment things right and they do it but and I am learning how to use that tool to drive my fulfillment but I'm also learning hey from other professionals and other verticals in the health like how do I optimize my health there's time management books how do I optimize my time and then even in the wet bucket there's like

How do I get the better deal to get the same experience and the same fulfillment points when I go to Greece?

No, don't do that hotel, get the Airbnb, it'll be nicer and you actually have more fulfillment and it'll be cheaper and you have more money for the trip to Japan, right?

So I'm just saying like at the macro level, this is how these things interact and this is how you should be thinking about the arc of your life, but then you can go into each vertical and sub-optimize.

I don't know if I learned it or I just believed it and it became.

Really?

So I always tell people, I think one of my advantages was that I was delusional.

And so they were like, what do you mean?

I was like, I believed I can do it.

And that drove my decisions.

Now, that didn't mean I was going to be successful.

I could have easily believed I had done it and just never have done it, right?

Tried a hundred times.

Failed and broken, yeah.

But the fact that I had that delusion and that belief that I can do it, that you could throw me in the desert and I'd have a fighting chance.

I'd figure it out.

I'd drink my own pee.