J. Kyle Mann

I think that's the one, like both in the terms of like shattering the mold of what an artist and a guitarist is, but doing it in a way that isn't alienating to pop audiences.

Like you mentioned the, like,

He is so virtuosic, but he's also incredibly unselfish as a performer in the way he shares the stage.

But when the moment comes, like I always think, I mean, there's the clip that circulated from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame where him and Tom Petty and everybody's doing While My Guitar Jump, They Weeps.

And everyone kind of has their moment.

And then Prince's moment comes.

It's just like, what the fuck?

Like everyone is like, oh, the people on stage are basically bowing to him in deference.

And if that's not like a double bang for a performer, like I really don't know what it is.

This sent me down quite a rabbit hole, Kyle.

Of introspection, of self-reflection.

I took it almost as like a little less about what I've learned from watching basketball and more what I've learned from playing basketball.

Although they're on some level one and the same.

It's all experiential.

But I think I said all known two things.

One,

There's nothing cool about not trying.

And there are so many areas of life where people just kind of float through and can seem like standoffish and ethereal and think that it gives them a sense of import because they're not going for the thing.

I've just come to accept that the coolest thing you can do

is to really fucking go for it.