Calvin Corelli
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Podcast Appearances
I can't.
It's hard.
They won't hear because they're stuck in their victim mindset.
And I'm sure none of you have ever done that, but I'm sure you know someone who has.
And when you're stuck in victim, what you're committed to is having unsolvable problems.
So fuck anybody try to fucking solve that problem for you, because you're hooked into this idea that this problem is intractable.
It's really hard.
And so I realized, fuck, that's what I'm doing.
And Ben will realize, but we've worked together.
So I've been stuck in growth and trying to acquire customers for a long time.
And what I realized this morning was, shit, I got really good at computers because I was terrified of human beings.
Right?
Humans would say shit and would make me feel terrible.
And I wouldn't know what to do with it and suppress it.
And I was like, oh, they're awful.
And so I got really good at programming because computers wouldn't talk back.
And if it didn't do what I wanted it to do, I could debug it and figure out why and fix it.
Humans were scary.
And marketing and customer acquisition is all about people and getting them to do what you want them to do, right?
So I realized here I was playing victim when it comes to that.