What Does Greatness Look Like?

I think the first five or ten years of your life, in your career, your job is to figure out what is greatness. And what I mean by that is working with a bunch of different types of people in a bunch of different fields and areas and figuring out, this is what a great CFO looks like, this is what a great CMO looks like. This is great unit economics. And the reason is, is in the beginning, at least for me, I didn't know what that looked like. So in your first jobs, right. What I did was like, if somebody thought the same way I did, I assumed that was right, which is very egotistical as, like months progress, you realize, hey, there's somebody who's doing something that I wouldn't have done, but it logically makes sense. Oh, that's kind of impressive, right? And you learn, oh, maybe that's what great looks like. The third step is you meet somebody who does something that you don't understand or you don't agree with, and it works really well. And you're like, wait a second, maybe that's greatness. And it takes that evolution. And why that's so helpful is it helps you figure out who are the people that you want to work with, because you now know what greatness feels like. It helps you when you want to work with other people, when you hire other people, but also gives you a sense when you're in a business that's doing very well. There's a lot of things that are intangibles that you want to understand because you're going to see that in your own life. So that's, I think, like my first piece of advice. So much so that I would prioritize that over almost any other thing. In your jobs, I'd prioritize that over how much money they're going to pay you. I'd prioritize that over your job title in your first years of your life. It's about learning. I mean, as much as you can, your jobs. Sam.