Tom Bilyeu

That's just true.

They could think through things more rapidly than I could.

I was like, I have an inferiority complex over how fast they think, and they're 15 years ahead of me as entrepreneurs, so I just always feel like a buffoon.

I'm starting to really feel badly about myself.

And so I'm arguing for this dumb idea, arguing, arguing, arguing, and then finally I wear them down and they agree.

And I was like, shit, I know it's the wrong idea.

Like there's a voice in my head screaming, you know this is a stupid idea, stop arguing for it.

But I needed to win.

And so when they left, I thought, okay, whoa.

What's real?

I just need to know what's real.

No judgment on me.

If what you want is to get rich, you have to change the way that you're acting immediately.

But if what you really want is to just feel smart, you need to leave this company.

Because butting heads with them every day and feeling inferior is never gonna get you there.

And so in that I realized, wait, there's actually a third option where I could value myself entirely for learning.

And if I switched my identity over from being smart, being right, being good, being worthy, to just, I learn, that's what I do.

Then everything will change and it did literally like that.

Like I remember that day so clearly so To me what you're describing is just another one of those Right give to go go deeper on that concept the notion that everything loops that history repeats Because I think people get it from like a US history class, but they don't necessarily understand it in their own life There's practically nothing

Yeah, the concept of just another one of those I think is it's bizarrely easy to miss in your book.