Steven Pressfield
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And he's got seven sisters, and he also has an older brother.
And they're like, and his mom is his manager, and she's like booking him fights where he's outweighed by 20 pounds and he gets massacred, you know?
And the story is, you know, he finally meets a girl who's like really supportive of him.
But anyway, it's a real theme that the people closest to us will try to.
They don't want us.
They're happy the way, you know, we like you, Andrew, the way you are.
You know, our son, we know he's working at Stanford.
He's doing his thing.
We don't want to see him.
It may be unconscious.
I'm not knocking your dad.
We don't want to see him suddenly burst out of the cocoon and become a butterfly and wing away from us, you know.
So they like you the way they are, you know, the way you are.
You hit the nail on a lot of heads.
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree with you completely.
I don't think it's ever been harder.
It's like...
I always said that if you want to make a billion dollars, come up with some kind of product that feeds into people's natural resistance, like potato chips or social media or something.
And they did come up with a product, and it's called the internet.