Be Like Water

You had one other piece of advice that I thought was incredibly powerful. In another talk that you did for entrepreneurs, you said that one of the most, well, the most important piece of advice for entrepreneurs is to be like water. And I was very touched by that. Could you maybe give a little bit more meat to what you mean by be like water? Yeah, I mean, it's just like go, go with the flow, you know, path, path of least. Since it's, it's not always, it's not always about the least resistance, but it's just flexibility is so important and, and that kind of expands into empathy and understanding and you know, the, the people that you're working with. If, if something happens and something comes up and it's, and it's going to be kind of going to be, you know, a challenge to have to deal with. That's okay. You'll fit. You know, you, you, you'll figure out, and you start to figure it out together. It's not about, you know, who said what and when and, you know, arguing about all of that. When something comes up, start to figure it out and flow around it and lean into it and make it work. And, and so, you know, over the last hand of years, the core team of littlestar and now as we've kind of transitioned the brand to rad as we go through those challenges and you're in the trenches with people doing really challenging kind of decision making in the moment. The last thing you want to have happen is for be friction. You're all in it together and it's okay to disagree and have like productive kind of proactive debate about things, but everybody is understanding of each other's position and suggests things that, you know, if something, everybody's stuck on something, you're suggesting something, there's, there's ways to flow through any kind of issue that, you know, taking that approach is like just generally in life, I mean entrepreneurship, you need that. If you don't have that, everybody blows up and the band breaks up and you know, startup falls apart and co founders leave and you know, like, you just can't, you can't operate that way. That's, that's just in business, but in life, I mean, if you approach all relationships that way and like life just seems to get better. It's like instead of your, instead of everything that you do being contentious, like, we'll figure it out, how bad can possibly be? So yeah, I've tried to take that approach more as, as, you know, things have progressed in the last handful of years in particular because earlier on I thought that, like, you had to, like, stay hard and fast to something, and if, you know, you didn't, then you were earlier. And really, that's like the counter to what you should do as a. As somebody in. As an entrepreneur. You should come up with a thesis, test it as fast as you possibly can, figure out if you're wrong, and go to the thing that's closer to being right.