Eddie Pinero

I wasn't the greatest by any stretch.

But I learned to suffer.

I learned that to win means you have to get your ass kicked.

That's just how it goes.

And I'm sure that was valuable, you know, when the race course changed from 2,000 meters on the water to the creative slash entrepreneurial space.

Suffering does not mean you win, but a refusal to suffer ensures you will lose.

Next, I focused on adding value, right?

You can't skip that.

There has to be an exchange of value.

And I was getting messages from people saying, Eddie, your work helped me.

It wasn't a substantial influx of people reaching out, but there's an idea that if you can help one person, you can help one million people.

It's not a can I do it question.

It's a logistics question.

It's a scaling question, which means it's just a matter of time.

It was all just tying to the self-belief, understanding that there was a way to scale that value.

When you approach your mission not with, is it possible, but how do I make it happen, you drastically increase your odds in anything you do.

Next, I believed, and this is perhaps the most important, that I was always one decision away from a totally different life.

One creation away from that change that I've been looking for.

And, you know, when you believe this and failure occurs, the mind simply asks, okay, what's next?

Almost like, you know, imagine you're shooting three-pointers.