I'd love about what you do, the daily stoic, stoicism in general, is how it applies to so many different aspects of life. I was listening to your conversation with Gary Vaynerchuk, and also your conversation with Matt Joy. Yeah. And how it applies to your ability to be the fact that you're complicit when somebody else says something and you're like, I take offense to that, or like, I'm so annoyed right now.

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you were able to actually accept that that is true, that you are complicit in those situations, do you know how much stress you would relieve from yourself in corporate America on a day-in basis? Crazy. It's nuts. That's like a 90% lift of weight off of your shoulders. And that's just one example of all of these things that seem to span corporate America running, entrepreneurship, writing a book, being a parent. Like that's what I've loved in, like as I was connecting the dots for this conversation, I was like, man, there's so much that applies here, both in the nitty gritty of like hardcore corporate America, but then also why do you run every day, you know, incessantly and, you know, feel like you can't get away

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out to be and thus torturing yourself. Yeah. There's such a small percentage that I've seen,