Sam Parr

That's cool.

And I knew he had done that.

And so I didn't come from, I think if you come from a family where multiple generations have stayed in the same town, it may feel really wild to just take flyers.

I'm so glad you told that story because even though the person this book is written towards is the person on the career path, and I mean that we don't have a chapter on how to advise people.

It's not written for the advisor, but I think it will be particularly interesting to parents and advisors to test whether or not they're willing to help support people in the way that your parents did.

And yeah, and in the chapter titled Chase Your Curiosity, I tried to borrow as many of those type of exercises as possible.

I even went out, I'm surprised I didn't find that one, but I found like 10 others and I put them all in there.

Like I'm trying to give people as many of those pathways as possible, because I think the very hardest part is to figure out actually what it is that drives you in this way that's going to make it very easy for you to differentiate yourself.

And it's funny, you mentioned that one.

There's a story in the book about this guy, Burt Beveridge in Austin, Texas, who's 40 years old and he's watching a PBS show.

And they say to take a sheet of paper, put it horizontal, draw a line down the middle, write on the left what you love to do and on the right what you're good at and try and find something in the middle.

And through that exercise,

He quit being a mortgage broker.

He had been a seismologist before that and launched a vodka company called Tito's at the age of 40.

For the founders, I think you'd find a lot of different stories and different pathways that got them to where they are.

I mean, like the Zuckerberg story is pretty famous.

He's at Harvard messing around.

And that's very different from the path, say, Gates took or even Bezos.

So I don't know that there is a pathway to that place.

I'll tell you, I once asked Jeff Bezos how he could possibly be good at angel investing while he's running this company.