Neal Tricarico
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
a boot camp.
What's the word I'm looking for?
A Navy SEAL style boot camp that was for 16 to 18 year olds.
And I think he convinced them to let him do it, even though he was 15, something like that.
And he was the youngest person to ever complete this.
He was doing Spartans.
He was an entrepreneur.
He melted and sold fishing lures when that wasn't profitable.
He turned to merch.
We found these different accounts that he was
selling stuff.
He also had a job at a local restaurant.
So from the outside world, everyone's like, oh my gosh, this kid is thriving.
Friends, parents, teachers.
But it was so hard for us because we knew it was at such a tremendous cost.
That camouflaging, that masking to fit in, sadly, ultimately broke him.
Great question.
How to interact with others in an emotional world is learnable through my observation, not through my experience.
But what is also interesting to me is, is at what cost?
And is it really better