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Michael Smoak

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Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

What if it goes away?

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

Well, that means that you never get to arrive at a place where you arrive.

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

And yeah, abundance mindset is a wonderful salve to the uncertainty and the fear that I think a lot of us feel.

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

It's important to have an Indian man in there for diversity.

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

We're still working between Rabbit Hole, Open Tabs,

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

side quests, and stuff I love.

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

Also makes for an interesting person.

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

An interesting life.

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

We don't want the thing.

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

We want the feeling that the thing gives us.

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

We don't... Having things isn't fun.

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

Getting things is fun.

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

Well, don't forget, there's a much more squirrely, pernicious version of this, which is developing yourself with your traits and your skills and maybe your knowledge as well.

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

Naval has this cool idea where he talks about how

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

He wasn't that concerned about being smart, but he really wanted to appear smart.

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

So what he did is he just wrote, memorized tons of stuff.

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

And that gave him the illusion of being smart to other people.

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

But it didn't mean he actually understood what he was doing.

Modern Wisdom
#1083 - Michael Smoak - 16 Brutal Life Lessons for Ambitious People

And that difference of when I'm able to impress people around a dinner table, when everybody else shuts up and they think I'm the most interesting person in the room then, or a black belt in some martial art,