Blake Mycoskie

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977 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 10 Jun

Blake Mycoskie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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and feeling like they needed to win.

And so, yeah, I think so much of my identity was based on that.

And then I think it became, I changed that identity for the identity of a young entrepreneur.

I started my first company when I was 18 years old, I dropped out of college.

And then I went from Blake, the great tennis player to Blake, the great young entrepreneur.

And so then that was the identity.

And so I think what happens is if you don't have that intrinsic self of worth,

and the peace that comes from that, you're constantly trying to construct these identities that give you the validation that you don't give yourself.

Yeah, it's similar to, it's called the John Newcomb Academy, but it was in Texas, New Braunfels, Texas, and very similar to IMG.

Yeah.

Yeah, John, we had the exact same story there.

Because I think a lot of people get that wrong.

They assume that I had crazy tennis parents that put all this pressure on me and I didn't get love unless I won.

That was not the case at all.

My parents were like, if anything, they probably thought I was a little bit crazy how much the drive and pressure I was putting on myself.

And so it really did come from this intrinsic drive that I had.

And I just think I was born with it.

And then I think the feeling of not feeling enough.

One thing that's hard about competitive tennis is I was like the best player in my town and I was one of the best players in my state.

But when I went to national tournaments, I would lose pretty early in the tournaments.

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