Chris Williamson

But then there's another group of people who care way too much.

About what other people think.

And I get the sense that a lot of people that rise to the top of their careers are actually in the latter camp rather than the former.

That they're trying to please.

They're trying to, if only I can make myself enough, then the world will see.

And is this okay?

Am I okay?

Do these people, do I look okay to them?

And are they responding to me in the way that I want?

Gold medalist syndrome.

You can speak adult in the right room, but you're pretending, you're LARPing as an adult, you're cosplaying as an adult, but secretly there's still a child inside.

I hate it.

No, go for it.

You start off saying that you knew that you wanted to be in restaurants when you were 12, and then you end up having the number one ranked restaurant in the entire world.

By design, there can only be a very small bucket of people that go from that dream to that reality.

What is it that separated you apart?

How did you get interested in unreasonable hospitality?

What did you learn from him?

Okay, so you managed to get from 12-year-old dreamer to busboy, pot washer, service lad, all the way up to working under Danny Meyer.

And then there's still even further to go because the difference between no restaurant and an okay restaurant and an okay restaurant and the best restaurant in the world, most of the journey is ahead of you once you've got the restaurant.