David Senra
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But I, it's very clear if you look at all of them,
Steve Jobs, Enzo Ferrari, Akira Morita, Sam Walton, Estee Lauder, Coco Chanel, Edwin Land.
They do their best work when they're much older.
And so I thought a lot about them.
I'm like, dang, this is like a reoccurring theme over and over again.
Some cases are in their 40s, 50 years old, and they're at the top of their game.
And then, you know, I was wondering, like, what is this?
Okay, well, obviously, like, it is some skill set so you can, like, practice more.
You have more experience so then you can make better decisions.
But one thing that I believe that I cannot prove, but I believe with every bone in my body, it's like because they knew themselves much more.
Think about the way you know yourself in your early 40s than you did when you were 23.
It's like we thought when we were 23, you don't know anything.
Even the most brilliant 23-year-old does not know themselves.
That comes through time and experience.
And it's like, no, no, no.
This is something I learned from Michael Dell's autobiography, which was excellent.