Fernando De Leon

Real estate was comfortable, but technology and engineering and software development was not.

I was really – like I had a discomfort and a little bit of a fear.

I can talk about it now.

In the moment, I probably didn't internalize the fear that I really had.

And so I think that to me the lesson in many respects is –

everybody has fear.

We all have fear about something, right?

Something that we don't understand or don't know.

And so what do you do with it?

Do you, I think about it and I say, okay, well, let me understand my fear.

Let me then compartmentalize it and then leverage it so I can adapt around it.

But you got to leverage it.

If you are afraid to leverage that fear, then you don't go anywhere.

I think you get stuck.

And so to me, it was always about putting it in a box and saying, let's go, right?

Let's move against that thing and lean into whatever's causing you a discomfort.

But you got to recognize it, be a little bit self-aware and fight through it.

And I think a lot of people don't want to do that.

But you should want to do it.

That's how you...