Ben Gilbert: belief

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…All of that stew, I felt like, okay, I really got to bring it on this one. What was interesting, that's why it was my favorite. I'm proud of all the work that I and we did for it, but I think I finally went too far. If you look at that episode, I was trying too hard. Which may not come out in the final edit. I got to be honest. If you go back and look, listeners, you may not hear it. I could hear it in the first edit and certainly while we're recording here live. The number of things that we end up cutting is massive, but David, I completely agree with you. Until this year, I don't think I would have agreed with the statement that the quality of our episodes is governed just as much by our headspace the day of recording as it is by the quality of the research that we did. Now I believe that that is immensely the case. The flow of the episode, the excitement about the topic, the clarity of the points that we're trying to make, it's about treating it like Sunday if you're an NFL player and having a game day routine in the way that it teaches you how to perform at your highest. This is going to sound incredibly self-aggrandizing here, but this is how I've come to think about it, like NFL Sunday when we're going out there. We go back to our NFL episode at the beginning of the year. It takes me right back to playing football in high school. The games that I prepared the hardest for felt I really put the effort in. Those were not the ones where I played the best. The ones where I played the best were when you play loose. You go out there, you have fun, you enjoy yourself, and you let it flow. It is the exact same with Acquired episodes.…

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