Eddie Pinero

I felt in my own personal world like I was doing something that mattered.

And to me, that's foundational.

My metric wasn't necessarily YouTube numbers.

I mean, I was aware, don't get me wrong, but I would just be excited when I finished a speech if I felt it was powerful.

My game was trying to move myself to tears playing back something I created.

If it was powerful to me, that would be a W. Maybe it won't get millions of views, but I know this is good, right?

It's like the Oprah metaphor I've used before.

When Oprah walks into a bakery and declares it amazing, suddenly everyone hears Oprah and wants the cakes and the donuts or whatever's in the bakery.

That doesn't mean the bakery suddenly got amazing overnight.

just means it was discovered.

The baker knew he or she was making good stuff.

They'd been following that course all along.

And so that same idea pulled me through.

Second, as I said in the intro, I didn't leave the door cracked at all.

I knew this is what I was going to do.

This is the arena I was going to continuously attempt to improve in.

And I was either going to be poor doing this or successful doing this, but I was going to do it.

And so that saved a lot of internal deliberation when something I created, quote-unquote, failed or the result was underwhelming.

There's nothing for me to discuss.

I'd have bad days, absolutely.