Eric Jorgenson

And I'm still like,

completely shocked that people of all ages and races and countries and languages are reading this thing and revisiting it and finding joy in it.

And I'm delighted by it.

I think it's just a testament to how far reaching some of the principles that Naval puts forward are.

I think, I mean, the word should is the thing that he talks about of like, there is no shoulds, but it's so hard to train yourself out of that, right?

Like we spend the first 20 years of our lives sitting in classrooms, all being taught the same thing and being assessed on the same thing.

And so then we go out into the work world and we're sort of like, all right,

What's the job?

What am I told to do?

And what you find in successful people is that they're rewarded to the degree that they are unique and authentic and excellent.

Actually, they're rewarded to the degree that they're unique and excellent.

And that is usually downstream of them being authentic.

Right.

Like your business works because you have fun being you and you're authentically interested in all these concepts and building businesses and buying businesses.

You buy crazy stuff all the time and you have so much fun telling everybody about it.

And I don't know how many of them work out, but it doesn't matter because it's all fun to watch.

Right.

Like I remember watching you like buy vacant land in Texas, abandoned land in Texas at an auction or something like that.

I was like, that's just cool.

And you're clearly like just having fun doing it.