Michael Smoak

It's cool.

And I think that, yeah, the path to being the best version of yourself should be lonely.

Or at the very least, being lonely is not an indication that you are not on the path to becoming the best version of yourself.

That people sort of rage against the fact that there is lots of self-doubt and there isn't that much glory.

And it does seem like it's tarnishing the experience.

And I don't know if it's going to work.

And I'm racked with this lack of belief.

Yet that is par for the course because if you're going to try and break out of the mold of wherever you are, you need to do something that's unbelievably weird and different and strange.

And that means that there's going to be very few people by design like you, very few people are going to be self-selecting to go and do this thing, which means that you have to go off on your own.

And maybe you're super fortunate and you've got a brother or a friend or whatever that is on the journey with you.

But for the most part, people are born in towns

If you're into this sort of stuff, you're the one person within a five-year age bracket where you live that you know that's into this, and there's no one else.

So, yeah, it's an indication that you're on the right path.

I think you're correct.

No.

I mean, look, grand plans, sort of big...

impressive goals for life is never something I've been particularly good at.

Really?

But this wasn't a plan.

right?