Rob Walling

But seeing executives and project managers who were busy, and who were, some of them entrepreneurial in their own right, and that they would...

You know, they would make a percentage of the net profit on their projects.

So they were highly motivated to execute really well and highly motivated to get a lot done.

It kind of taught me this lesson again, right?

Of like, don't escalate stuff unless I really need to.

Don't put it back on them.

And it also...

I think was a decent model for me as I became an entrepreneur of, oh, I should respect my time too.

I should not waste my time or care about little minutia when I really need to be looking at the big picture.

The third lesson I learned is that self-education can compound pretty fast.

The context for this is I was in the car a lot.

Long hours alone meant that I could listen to a lot of music, which I did, tons of Beatles.

This is where I actually really developed that love I have of the Beatles and Bob Dylan.

but it also meant a lot of time for audio books.

And this was before Audible.

That's how old I am.

So it was books on tape and CDs.

And, you know, you can think of the classics, right?

There's good to great.

And there was, I think I listened to Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and I was kind of like, eh, this isn't that great.