CZ Lopez

sometimes those things can get to your head.

Specifically when you start ascending through the ranks and people are shyer and shyer about telling you no, you're doing something wrong.

Everybody tends to agree with you.

You start getting a lot of yes men around you.

And that is very dangerous because if you start believing that hype, you're eventually going to become what many call a victim of your own success.

And that is not a victim of your own success because you continue to do good.

It is just that you're a victim of success to where your credibility is going to diminish over time because you become an egomaniac and you decide to go ahead and start disregarding the input and the candid feedback and the criticism of people that matter.

So humility is something that always reels you back.

And I think that one of the best equalizers that I had in my life when it comes to humility was the presence of Janet.

Janet being around me, she was basically the one with that pin to deflate my head when it was clearly starting to go ahead and get blown up and ballooned up.

And eventually, I started checking myself when it came to it.

If something didn't feel right when I asked input about something, I will ask many questions.

And I will encourage people, hey, just

The emperor's got no clothes.

Just give it to me as it is.

Just candid and honest feedback.

That is the only way that we're going to progress.

And if you lack humility, you are never going to get there because eventually you're going to believe the hype.

You're going to become another egomaniac and you start disregarding people that are actually trying to help you be better than who you were yesterday.

I think the first taste of that, and I believe I wrote a letter to my sister, she may still have it, that when I was in basic military training, I could barely speak English, right?