1777efbf138a -- 5mo I have never figured out how to get into these so called “rooms.” In high school and college it was natural to not be the smartest, although sometimes I was. After college I started my own companies and never got to the place where I had the money to hire really smart people, so I was always the smartest. And now the rooms I’m in with smarter people are coders and such who do things I know nothing about and have no interest in. All this is to say, if I knew where the rooms were, I’d go to them. The best I can do is listen to podcasts and YouTube and scroll NOST and X. replyI have never figured out how to get into these so called “rooms.” In high school and college it was natural to not be the smartest, although sometimes I was. After college I started my own companies and never got to the place where I had the money to hire really smart people, so I was always the smartest. And now the rooms I’m in with smarter people are coders and such who do things I know nothing about and have no interest in. All this is to say, if I knew where the rooms were, I’d go to them. The best I can do is listen to podcasts and YouTube and scroll NOST and X.
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For most of my life I was the smartest person in every room I was in.This is not a brag about my intelligence and more an admission that I was perpetually in the wrong room.I was in the wrong rooms because I was afraid. Afraid of failure, afraid to lose control, afraid of the unknown.It was easier to be the big fish in the small pond.But it came at the expense of my potential and one day the internal dissonance from taking the easy way out justgot too great to ignore and I had to take a leap into the unknown.I had to let it all fall apart.I’m sharing this because I’m having an honest reflective moment about my own human weakness and fallibility andI think many of you out there are probably still in a place that you’ve already outgrown.My advice?Its time to let the past die.Kill it if you have to.That’s the only way to become what you are meant to be.
I have never figured out how to get into these so called “rooms.” In high school and college it was natural tonot be the smartest, although sometimes I was. After college I started my own companies and never got to theplace where I had the money to hire really smart people, so I was always the smartest. And now the rooms I’m inwith smarter people are coders and such who do things I know nothing about and have no interest in. All this isto say, if I knew where the rooms were, I’d go to them. The best I can do is listen to podcasts and YouTube andscroll NOST and X.
For most of my life I was the smartest person in every room I was in.
This is not a brag about my intelligence and more an admission that I was perpetually in the wrong room.
I was in the wrong rooms because I was afraid. Afraid of failure, afraid to lose control, afraid of the unknown. It was easier to be the big fish in the small pond.
But it came at the expense of my potential and one day the internal dissonance from taking the easy way out just got too great to ignore and I had to take a leap into the unknown.
I had to let it all fall apart.
I’m sharing this because I’m having an honest reflective moment about my own human weakness and fallibility and I think many of you out there are probably still in a place that you’ve already outgrown.
My advice?
Its time to let the past die.
Kill it if you have to.
That’s the only way to become what you are meant to be.
