Patience Is The Game (on The Danny Miranda Podcast) | Ep 812
episodePreviously titled “Patience Is The Game | (on The Danny Miranda Podcast)” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026
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What is the main topic of this episode?
And so I think what a lot of people need to do is figure out the games they need to play in the meantime. And so experts at things don't really have more impulse control. I think it's a fallacy. They figure out more ways to win in the meantime.
How did Danny and Alex's relationship develop?
So grateful and honored for you to join me today because we spent so much time together. So it's only right that we actually sit across from each other face to face.
Just for the audience sake, how have we spent time together, Danny?
Dude, so many podcasts, so many YouTube videos, like a disgusting amount. I'm like, are you kidding? I've spent so much time with you because you're such an incredible communicator, because you are able to have 10 years of knowledge into a three-second clip. I'm just like, what is going on? And so I'm learning so much about business, about communication, about life, all from you. So- Thank you so much for being you. And that's why we spend so much time together, because I continually get value from the things you say.
Well, I will do my very best to continue that trend, even though that is big shoes to fill.
Well, I mean, it was so funny because one guy, I remember just not being able to talk to one guy because he's like, oh, Alex Ramosi, I don't get any value from him. I'm like, all right, well, we're just not going to be friends. So that's, yeah, that's... But this interview is about you, not my spending time with you. And that is, I would love to start with a psychology assignment you had at 19 years old when you had to pick someone who had a psychological disorder and tell the story of how they went down that path. Will you tell that story, please? Yeah.
What lesson did Alex learn from his psychology assignment?
Yeah, sure. So I, like many young men, had lots of angst and felt like the world was not fair and that I had not gotten what I, quote, deserved and that I thought that my parents could have done a better job of parenting me in general. And I resented them for that. um and so i had an intro to psychology course and the assignment was as you said pick somebody who had any pathology that we had cut you know studied over the whole semester and then write the story from their perspective of how that pathology might have developed right and um what happened through the course of going through that assignment was not what i expected uh because as i went through and i picked my mother and she's you know she's been public about
suffering from, you know, depression and ADD and things like that. That I picked that and in kind of inhabiting her shoes as an immigrant who came here not speaking the language and having, you know, a Serbian father who is very authoritative, rightfully so. We're talking 1950s. You know what I mean? Just different times. And what her upbringing must have been like and having a split life between being an American at school and, you know, getting beat up for not being able to speak because back then it was almost, uh, expected and, and normalized to beat up the foreigners, um, to, to, you know, then being the, the first person to, you know, first female class at Hopkins, um, to be in that, um, as a doctor.
And so thinking about that trajectory, I all of a sudden realized the amount of pressures that she had put on externally, that other people had put on her externally throughout her whole life. And what happened was I felt like I understood. And Blaise Pascal, who's Pascal's triangle, some people remember him, he was a mathematician and also a theologian. He had this quote that I love, which is, to understand is to forgive. And I believe that you cannot both hate someone and understand them at the same time. And so like, if I am very angry with someone, it's become a check for me where I'm like, oh, I must not understand something. Like there's something about them or something about their experience that has made me not understand why they do what they do. And then you have the secondary statement of most people, if you were born with the same genetics and live the same life as that person, you would see the world the same way as they do.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic of this episode?
0:00–0:13
2
How did Danny and Alex's relationship develop?
0:13–1:42
3
What lesson did Alex learn from his psychology assignment?
1:42–6:49
4
How can understanding others improve relationships?
6:49–13:11
5
What are some mental models for managing anger?
13:11–20:12
6
How does the volume of work affect success?
20:12–34:50
7
Why is hard work crucial for exceptional results?
34:50–37:16
8
How does one determine when a project is ready?
37:16–50:01