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You know what's crazy Is I'm a extremely skeptical paranoid I'm you know when I mean like in Business that's kind of like you know Military not necessarily but you know You're very but you're joking that's Tom Sarcasm but you know when you when you Have the life I've lived and you're kind Of in the situations I've been you kind Of sitting there saying what's going on Over here in the middle of covet you're Listening to everybody and there's one Side on your you know shoulder you got The one guy on the other guy one guy's Like you gotta take the shot you're an Idiot if you don't another guy's saying Dude we don't know what we're doing Right in the middle of covid when they Said well you gotta let everybody work From home what are you that's unfair why Are you being such an old school you Sound like an 80 year old CEO from the 60s let people work from home these Millennials you need to learn from them Liberate them yeah and the other side is Like no no no no don't buy into it yes You're being too tough on your kids your Kids are in two two two two tough on These guys and the other side no Look at the life they got an easy life Hey you're being unfair with the Standards you're creating loosen up a Little bit now that's what great leaders Do this too the hardest part is when
You're in the thick of things when Everybody's telling you to go work from Home and I'm on board calls and on these Board calls well Patrick maybe maybe You're not being fair maybe you ought to Consider what these younger people are Asking for that hey maybe you're not Being responsible enough you should send Somebody to everybody's office and offer Free vaccine to everybody that's a board Call I had Tom you were on that call Maybe you should send them hey maybe you These in these moments When you're you're sitting there and You're making a decision and you walk Away you could be wrong it's in those Moments that the trust in you goes Higher where you have to trust yourself This doesn't mean you're going to be 100 Right all the time yeah but some of this Is common sense of course and it's so Hard to lean on Common Sense while 90 of People who have fancy degrees who are More educated than you are selling you a Story that when you're by yourself You're saying maybe that guy's smarter Than me maybe they're right maybe that It's in those moments that you realize How strong can you do me a favor what Was the tone of the voice of the board Call how that wasn't me speaking no no No no no hold on because this person I Was shaking my head First of all if I do the voice I'm not
Gonna do the voice because people know Well guess what are they from California But the point is and by the way the People who said that to me yeah I love Those of course FYI without those guys We don't create the valuation and the Business that we've been I'm telling you Here right I believe it but in those Moments How do you make your decision what is This something from inside you from what Makes you go you know what I'm gonna do My own thing I get what thanks for the Advice bro here's the thing you know the Whole thing about like you know some Some people are sending me messages About Jordan Peterson what do you think What's going on with Jordan Peterson We'll talk about his story right now as Well what do you think about what's Going on with Tate what do you think What's going on with this what do you Think what's going on with that here's Here's what I do know any one of us who Think we're right 100 of time you're a Fool of course any one of us who think We know it all all the time about all Things you're a fool okay there's Nothing attractive about that human Being okay and by the way we all are Tempted to feel that way and the cause Of that is when people around you tell You how amazing you are is because you Don't sit with opposition okay the
Problem when you don't sit with Opposition and you only sit with people That think you're so amazing you're You're like you know how much hate I got For having Reza salana really oh I can Imagine oh my god do you know how many People tweeted at me called I had a call Last night saying why would you have Results something like dude what's one Of my favorite podcasts yeah why would You have you know uh Kyle kulinski I Freaking had a blast with the guy Because you're finding leaks right so You're asking a question to me dude There's been many times I've made a Decision and I've been wrong and I had To learn okay but in certain decisions That has to do with values and Principles I'm not compromising you stay Right on yourself you keep the course They know because my loyalty is the to The people that that bought into the Vision when we sold the company like What we're gonna do one day when I sold Them 13 and a half years ago my Loyalties to those people there is no What we're doing today without those Guys at the beginning zero my goal was To make sure all of those guys became Financially free Palio today just bought A three million dollar house in Austin Got a beautiful wife beautiful Junior Beautiful kid beautiful family very Happy in Austin Gaitan just bought a two
And a half something million dollar House in huge Houston drives a nice car Kids go to Great private schools he's an Incredible father mom's an incredible Mother to have three boys seeing what Happened with Rodolfo and CeCe Vargas Incredible life they're living in a Beautiful home you know few million Dollars in the bank they've saved They've done this guy was a guy that Worked a lost prevention at Sears wow And he went back to El Salvador to get Married seeing what's happened with Matt Zappal who just bought a three million Dollar home in Dallas Texas beautiful Basketball tennis court stairs of like The Tony Montana type of stairs when you Come walking and they're living an Incredible life they're both leaders Iowa to them because without them we Don't have what we have but exactly I'm The leader yeah and my my my depression Isn't for me to be right 100 of the time The pressure is I may be wrong but I'm Okay with that but I don't compromise Values and principles and I I don't Think neither should the rest of us no Matter how great the argument may make You should always leave and out to say Guys we could be wrong the whole problem With covet was what all they said is They're 100 right and others are 100 That's just it's just not cool to do That okay so I'm not sitting here trying
To tell you how amazing we did all this Other stuff believe me I can tell you 50 Different mistakes I made yeah but I'm Okay with that but I'm not compromising Values and principles I respect those Are the things that we have to work on So if you like this clip and you want to Watch another one click right here and If you want to watch the entire podcast Click right here
