Ted Stern

I just got promoted.

And they had good points, but they're not optimistic people.

And I mean, it's the same cliche kind of advice.

It's like, are you gonna listen to people who have never done what you're gonna do?

And that's what it is, is people, when they see other people being optimistic, taking risks,

working hard, those are things they're not willing to do.

Yeah.

And part of them knows that that is an ingredient to success.

And they then see that almost as a threat to their own identity.

Cause it's like, cause, cause whether they consciously realize it or not, they know that's not them and they're not willing to do that.

And it's almost like when people are getting in shape.

Right.

I don't know if anyone said this to you in the last year.

Oh, you're looking sucked up, bro.

Like a kind of an underhanded jab.

Yeah.

Because they're not, you know, working hard to get in shape.

Right.

You know, and it's like my clients will be like, dude, I was doing push-ups and one of my buddies at work was making fun of me for doing push-ups in the middle of the day.

Right.