Tom Bilyeu

Right.

So but then I go, ah, I'm the learner.

So I don't need to be brilliant.

Now, if I told myself the story of Tom is the smartest person that ever lived and you point out how I'm a moron and it's a pretty convincing argument, that's devastating because it takes away my identity.

So there's that.

Yeah, I mean, you could shift in and out for sure.

You could say, I'm also a husband, right?

I'm a husband first.

And that really matters to me.

And a lot of people have an identity as a dad.

Some part of my identity... I mean, look, our identities are... When you get out of the...

out of what I'll say is maximally useful and into the mess of reality.

So part of my identity for sure is being an entrepreneur.

And part of my identity, quite frankly, is being right some amount of the time.

But in terms of what I repeat to myself, the thing that I claim as my identity, that sort of

moniker that you give this phrase that you repeat about yourself to constantly orient yourself in a useful way to the world and you lived it right you know how much saying i'm a wrestler oriented you how it impacted your behavior it impacted what you ate it impacted how you trained and

You can understand how if somebody says to themselves, I'm a wrestler, or they say, I'm a world-class wrestler, even that distinction ends up altering behaviors, altering self-perception, alters where you're vulnerable, right?

Because now that identity, you could still be great, but if you fail to make the Olympic team, let's say, it could all come crashing down.

So you could be one of the 10 best people in your state, right?

Everyone is terrified of you, but you didn't make the Olympic team.