Eric Thomas

The fact that you can work and thrive in solitude gives you the opportunity to be able to move to America and start a podcast or decide to do Hell Week three times in a row or it doesn't matter how long or dark the course is, you're just going to stay.

I can promise you that no one is going to laugh at you for your first podcast.

Do you know why?

Because no one's going to see it.

You already are not a recording artist.

I'm very comfortable in my own head.

Self belief is overrated.

Generate evidence.

Despite my doubts and all of those sort of things, I'm going to put my trust in that and try and then go for things and not be scared to fail and not be driven by fear and all those sort of things because it's personal.

Here's an excerpt I did with our next guest.

Ed, when you think about all the people you've interviewed, you've talked to, the people you surround yourself with, your inner circle, and you're obviously one of these guys too, these are those who have sustained excellence over an extended period of time.

What are some of the commonalities among those few people?

Standards, period.

You don't get your goals in life most of the time.

The last book I published, I was called the pursuit of excellence.

And I, every once in a while I get a question, they're like, why, why isn't it easier to kind of be okay with things?

Like, isn't life a little bit easier that way?

And I certainly have my answers for that.

And I wrote about that, but

Why have high standards?