Podcast Monday (12/4/2023)
This Week’s Favorites:
Keith Rabois and Mike Shebat on 20VC
It's momentum that matters. It's progress that matters. When you know you're getting better, when the company's getting better, when the customers are happier, more delighted, et cetera, workers are making more money, that's what fuels You. But if you think about the back to the work ethic, the people who become Olympians, they don't stop until their body basically can no longer compete with elite people. If you look at the basketball players, the Michael Jordan's and the Kobe Bryant's, they're still out working everybody who's 16, 15, 14, 13 with 500 to 5,000 shots a day, notoriously after playoff games still taking more shots, making the staff keep up with them, waking up at 5 a.m. for more practice. That's what makes you successful in any field. People think DJs are these creative people that don't do any work. Most of the successful DJs I know play like 300 shows a year across the world until they make it. And when they make it, they still play 150 shows a year traveling all around the globe. So there is no substitute for success. And so you have to decide when you wake up, what is my life about? And if it's about transforming the world, you have to take energy from somewhere and apply it. And it becomes self-fulfilling. At the end of the day, you really do have this ambition to get better every day. And it doesn't even feel like work. I used to joke with people that if you have to look at the clock in the middle of the day, you have the wrong job.
Erin Matson on Laughter Permitted with Julie Foudy
I always loved coaching. I was a player coach in a way with the team here. I would sit and watch film with them, I would talk in drills, I would go home on a winter break and coach high school clinics and the club team. And I knew I wanted to be involved with it So I went to our athletic director the August before my final season and I said look I know coach is going to retire soon. I just don't want to be overlooked. I want this job, I love it. And he looked me in the eyes and he said okay, I never would have expected that a 20 year old would have come to me and said that. He said go win a national championship and then we'll talk and I said okay. So we went and the team did it. We won, we did it beautifully and in fairy tale fashion. And I went back to him and I said all right we did what you said. I took care of it, let's talk.
It's something we try to instill in our girls here every single day, that self-belief. But you know, it starts with somehow just looking at yourself and being like I can do this I know I can do this now. I'm just gonna go prove to others that I can.
My First Million: Finding +$1M Businesses From Weird Trends (#523)
So there's a new chart I saw yesterday that is legit. And it's the it's the growth in homeschooling.