David Senra

Michael Dell has this great line in his autobiography.

where at the time, he's 19 years old, he's in his dorm room at the University of Texas, he's got $1,000, and he's like, I'm going to compete with IBM.

That is delusional.

IBM at the time is the most valuable company in the world.

It was the first company, I didn't even know, I had to go back and research this.

The first company to get to $100 billion market cap in history was IBM.

And you have this kid that's like, I'm going to compete head-to-head with them.

And the next line when he's talking about this is,

Was I a little full of myself at 19?

Sure I was.

I think you have to be to do anything special.

So I always had this like deep, just like delusional self-confidence

and like default optimism that like I focus on something, I will figure it out.

I will figure out how to do this.

But I also think it's impossible.

Like I've obviously changed.

I've been doing the other, I've been doing Founders Podcast for almost 10 years.

It's like, I think I'm up to like, I don't know, 407 of these books by far.

That's hundreds of thousands of pages.

That is people like, oh, 10,000 hours.