Jonathan Swanson

you don't want to do to do the things that are meaningful to you.

So I think that's one way.

You know, the other thing is I think you need to treat your assistant with the respect and love that they deserve, right?

This is not just, hey, do this for me.

This is, hey, we're a partnership.

I want to help you build your life.

I want to give you more opportunity, more income.

You're going to help support me, and it needs to be a mutual relationship.

thing we this doesn't happen very often.

But we've had to fire a few clients at Athena who just like weren't kind to their assistants.

And that's unacceptable to us.

We only want to work with people who are kind and generous with their assistants because our assistants are there to take care of you and they give so much that they deserve that same in exchange.

I don't know what you mean.

I live in Puerto Rico and getting things done in Puerto Rico is a little more difficult.

I'm lucky to have this team that's basically filter between me and the difficulty of getting things done.

I do occasionally step outside of that filter and I'm like, whoa, I forgot.

how hard this is so look i think if they're for like waiting in line at the dmv i just like never need to be good at that so i don't mind if my skills atrophy uh but you know if something's important for your work or your skill set or your craft then obviously you can't fully delegate it and you need to own that and keep your skills sharp

And so I think if you delegate something like that, I could see that being a negative thing.

But there's a hundred other things to delegate that are not core to your highest skill.

And all those things, I don't really care if my inbox management skills atrophy.