Joshua Citarella

Well, because all of us want the belief that with sufficient effort, we too can overcome whatever our shortcomings are.

And what you're seeing with the guy that just, you know, I lift once a week, dude.

You look great.

He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're the genetic equivalent of a nepo baby.

We don't like seeing people that

have gotten something that we don't think that they earned.

Because largely, what's the story that you take away from that?

There isn't really a story that you can take away from that.

One that is...

encouraging to yourself.

And maybe this is, maybe it would be different if it wasn't a meritocracy, but that's the world that we live in, right?

If your, uh, successes are yours to bear, then what does that mean about your failures?

And if you see somebody who it seems sort of managed to climb up one of the ladders, meanwhile, you had to move one square at a time and everybody else did.

Right.

Right.

You have a bit of an ache around.

Oh, wow.

How interesting.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.