Kaz Nejatian

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618 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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The Knowledge Project · Inside Kaz Nejatian’s Fight to Save Opendoor · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

And there's a second thing, which is very real.

I played rugby in high school.

And I am not a big dude, but I'm fast and have a high pain tolerance.

And I really, really enjoy winning as a team.

Rugby is actually a special sport for this.

It's crazy.

It tends to be a sport that if you play in North America that basically never has an audience.

Like no one goes to watch rugby games in North America, really.

So you do it for your friends, you do it for your teammates, not for the audience.

But you get something better out of it, which is like this idea of like being in pain while winning as a team.

there's like something very deeply joyful about bleeding out, like out of your knee while winning as a team.

Yeah.

Over a very long period of time, by the way, the person who can hold your hand over the fire, the longest tends to be the winner.

The difference between doing something incredibly well and do it poorly is

is not that high, but people just give up too soon.

Unfortunately, I think the sugar rush of easy satisfaction in the modern world has underprepared people for pain.

I have four kids.

They're seven, five, three, and two.

And I care a great deal about what they say to their kids that their dad did.

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