Ben Gilbert: belief

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…It's hard to not have the product be good because you did the work, I guess is my point. Yeah. I think we now have a process that means that when you and I put in the work, the product is good, but it took a long time to arrive at that. This is another Sam Hinkie thing. Trust the process. The point I was making there, though, is because you guys do so much preparation and it's now your life's work, it's going to be so hard not to add value to the people in your life, whether it's friends that never show up on a podcast or friends that you don't have a business relationship with. You're just going to add value because what you do is so rare. Naval Ravikant influenced my thinking a lot, too. He has this thing in The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by our friend, Erik Jorgensen. He's just like, if you read an hour a day, that puts you in the 0.0001% of humans. I'm like, that can't be true.…

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