David Senra

And it just conflicts with a lot of stuff that's in the biographies.

And I'll just go with those guys or anybody else, right?

And they're always just like, yeah, you know, my belief is something that I repeat on this maximum, that belief comes before ability.

It's in these stories every single time you have somebody, like I just reread the autobiography of the founder of Sony.

Akio at the time was, we're going to start this company in 1946.

Yeah.

In Tokyo.

Yeah.

That's occupied by the Americans.

That is completely, has been firebombed.

Yeah.

Right.

He's passing, he's going to work and he's passing just burnt out rubble, millions of homes of Japanese.

Yeah.

More than half the population has left the city.

They start what turns out to be Sony, which is one of the most successful and influential companies of all time in a burned out department store.

One of my favorite anecdotes in the book is the,

they need to have umbrellas on their desks because when it rains, it comes through the roof.

And yet in his book, he says, I don't have a problem saying, even then I knew I had potential and I could be great and I could do great things.

He had the belief before the ability.