Andy NearyI help insurance professionals turn brand awareness into business growth.

May 7, 2024

7 May 2024 · 0 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube conversation (Andy Neary and another speaker) exploring the tension between competitive drive and humility. The speakers argue that success can tempt people to become overconfident, while experiences in athletics, work, and industry often serve to humble and refocus individuals.

It's the competitive drive. How many people can I help?
But I think that's what separates you and others from everybody else. It's. It's your drive, but your mix of drive with remaining humble. Right. I can't tell you how many times I've talked to you where I'm like, dude, be more excited. But it's because you're so humble, you're never going to let yourself get too high on your own supply. And I think that's a dangerous slope. A lot of people in this industry can go down as they start to have some kind of level of success and. And then they become their own biggest fan. And that. That's a slippery slope.
Well, that's another thing that I think athletics and life and business will teach you. You'll get humbled at some point. The best get humbled. I've been humbled in football when I played in college, I was humbled a number of times in work, in business, I've been humbled in this industry. I've had some pretty crazy things happen that I wouldn't have expected. And I thought, oh, wow, I didn't see that coming. You know what? File that one away.