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#500 - Special: 18 Lessons From 500 Episodes
Modern Wisdom
All Your Heroes Aren't Gods
Your heroes aren't gods. They're just regular people who probably got good at one thing by neglectingit everything else. The best kong fu studio guy is going to live and breathe congfu studio stuff. The best knitting person is going tolive and breathe knitting stuff. But as you start to ascend toward the real top of anything, which is typically where heroes are, it's just you're going to be out competed by somebody that decides to not try and do knitting whilst running acongfu studio. It's so monotonous and boring and simple that it just doesn't display itself. You know, there's some of the best business guys on the planet. I
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