David Bayer

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The School of Greatness · The Golden Equation That Turns Desire Into Reality | David Bayer · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

We would describe him today as not having a tremendous amount of emotional intelligence.

And so he was a great problem finder.

But when you're on the receiving end of that, you sort of experience like, I'm never doing it right.

There's always a better way to do it.

There's something wrong with me.

So I grew up with- There's not much affection or there's-

Right.

It's more results-driven.

Results-driven, yeah.

It's a great way to describe it.

So part of my core makeup was there's something wrong with me.

Did he say it out loud or was it more just an internal feeling?

It was an internal feeling.

I didn't have a self-awareness until probably my early 30s when I was running a venture-backed technology company.

I was chasing success.

Everybody expected me to be really successful because I was a bright kid and I felt like I needed to do that in order to be loved.

So, like, I was always, you know, kind of good at my career.

But as that overdeveloped itself within me,

And as I continued to not realize that below the surface there were these wounds that needed to be healed, I was dealing with it through drug abuse, alcoholism, sex addiction.

And so in my early 30s, when I hit my bottom and I got into recovery, I started becoming aware that, wow,

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