Tom Pelphrey

And if this is my identity, if this is how I'm evaluating myself, then I'm always going to fall short.

Be careful what game you're playing, because depending on the game, there is no way to win.

There is no top.

And even if you get to the top, you can't stay there.

You have to sustain now the top.

Which is even harder probably.

Genuinely, I would imagine so.

Just seeing how it goes sometimes where you do something and it's good and it comes out at the right time and you sort of whoosh and it goes up.

You're like, that's a wild confluence of many things happening at exactly the right time coupled with we did a good enough job and boom, it kind of takes off.

You're like, there's no way to control that.

Yeah.

You can't even replicate it.

If we could, people would do it all the time.

Clearly we can't.

You have an industry with a bunch of people trying to figure out how to do it and they can't do it with any consistency.

So it is out of your control.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Right?

And then you are powerless.

And then for me, it was like, okay, well then what is the identity that I want to build my house on?