Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…I don't have my place decked out like yours yet, Lenny. I need to do that, but I have multiple of these of the man in the arena speech. I do think that is the thing that I keep coming back to and the thing that I keep finding the value that I resonate with the most, and it's even what we try to build Reforge around is we're trying to build Reforge around the people that we create programs and stuff, these are the folks that have been in the arena. They've gotten the blood, sweat and tears to talk about. I just highly respect people who enter that arena and do that hard work, and those are the folks that I've learned the most from and want to spend my precious hours building for and spending time with. I think exactly the same way with this podcast. I try really hard to stick to people that have done the thing and when Casey Winters came on the podcast, after he's just like, "Lenny, make sure you stay close to people really doing the work and not just pontificators. " What is the most valuable lesson that your mom or dad taught you? Both my parents were teachers and so I think probably they did not understand my entrepreneurial life at all early on. Yeah, I got that elsewhere. But I do think the things that I took from my parents were just a lot of lessons around how to learn and that you can learn anything if you actually want to learn it, and I think that's probably the most valuable thing that they taught me was just how to learn and that's something I want to pass down to my kids as well.…

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