Dave Portnoy
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And it's as big as the world.
And I know that that road trip we took from Texas to Pensacola took whatever, 15 hours.
And it was just that long on a map.
If I can see the edge of that cloud, that cloud must be so far up in the sky that it's not even worth dreaming about.
So I'm going to put my head down.
Forget Air Force.
I'm Army.
That was went through it through my head.
I was like, you got to deal with what's right in front of you because what's out there is too far away.
So for 15 years, I just put my head down and dealt.
Didn't dream.
You know, at 16 years old, I take my first flight, commercial flight, and in 10 seconds, I'm in the middle of that cloud, and I'm like, either this cloud goes a billion miles an hour, or that cloud is not as big as the world is, like Mr. Mayor told me it was.
Well, so I then come to learn, oh, clouds aren't that big.
They're not that far away.
And all of a sudden, I was like, oh.
Well, so what's over the horizon is actually worth considering.
What's out there that you don't see right in front of you is worth dreaming about.
But still, the fact that I've always dealt and looked to logic
You know, us doers, I've always been a doer.
And us doers, we climb mountains.