David Royce

To me, we're happiest when we're striving for our true potential.

It's this idea that you're never going to regret giving your best and going for it.

And I was very young.

It's like, why would I quit?

What else would I do?

I've heard that 70% of athletes who win the gold medal are depressed because it's like they've lost their North Star.

It's like, what are you going to do?

Get a second gold medal?

Is that going to feel even better?

Yeah, I mean.

It happens sometimes.

And I think a lot of the time I just, I'm not really thinking about it as much.

I think most people have pretty good intentions when they've come to me, but I think nobody has sympathy for this situation, right?

If you've made it all and now you're like, well, what do I do with my life?

They're like, oh, it's hard to be you, right?

Yeah.

There's very few people who can understand that.

And so like YPO has been a good thing for me to be in just to be able to talk to other people who,

you know, are executives and have achieved some of that success and they can tell you, okay, well, it's really about the journey, right?

And like, here's what we're doing now to still be fulfilled.