Sahil Bloom

I have an older sister who was extraordinarily high achieving academically.

I have an older sister who was extraordinarily high achieving academically.

And at the first sign of me not being able to easily do that same thing that she was doing, I started telling myself, I'm not the smart one.

And at the first sign of me not being able to easily do that same thing that she was doing, I started telling myself, I'm not the smart one.

I need to find a different thing.

I need to find a different thing.

I need to be athletic or something else, but I'm not smart.

I need to be athletic or something else, but I'm not smart.

That bred within me an insecurity that was very, very hard to crack.

That bred within me an insecurity that was very, very hard to crack.

And no matter how much my parents told me that it wasn't true, no matter how much my sister told me it wasn't true or teachers, it was the story I told myself and I was not willing to break it.

And no matter how much my parents told me that it wasn't true, no matter how much my sister told me it wasn't true or teachers, it was the story I told myself and I was not willing to break it.

And it took, frankly, like 30 years for me to finally reject those original stories and truly kind of create the space for introspection to actually break some of those original stories I had told myself.

And it took, frankly, like 30 years for me to finally reject those original stories and truly kind of create the space for introspection to actually break some of those original stories I had told myself.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's sort of what I said earlier, which is the early years of my career were very much spent head down, focused on building a financial and sort of experience and knowledge foundation for the rest of my life.

It's sort of what I said earlier, which is the early years of my career were very much spent head down, focused on building a financial and sort of experience and knowledge foundation for the rest of my life.

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