Ryan Daniel Moran talks about comparing yourself to others and feeling behind. He says the difference between people onstage and in the audience isn't magic, just doubling down on strengths and producing results. Everyone shares the same insecurities.
I tried to write a formal speech for you three times.
So please welcome ryan daniel moran.
Three times. I opened up my laptop and sat down to try and put thoughts together, and I had all kinds of weird insecurities come up, which at first, you know, it comes up all the time for all of us. But for on the stage, happens to me very, very rarely. And what I realized is I started here.
I'm going here.
But right now, I'm feel like I'm here.
And some days feels like I'm here, and some days feels like I'm here.
And in that moment, I realized that I was standing in the first inning comparing myself to the end game, wondering, what the hell do I have to share?
What the hell does anybody want to learn from me? I'm not there. I'm here.
Now, to the person who's here, here looks pretty good.
And we are all walking around with this comparison game with this game that we play in our heads of so and so is making 100k a month, this person making a million dollars a month, this person sold.
For eight figures.
Hootie posts pictures of girls on Facebook.
And we are all playing this internal game of comparing ourselves to one another.
And the hell of it all is regardless of where you are on the spectrum, you're all playing the game with someone else. I made the joke recently that I think someone could take a picture of themselves having a really bad day crying and take a selfie of it and put it on Facebook. And somebody else would say, I don't look that pretty when I cry.
What's wrong with me? Why do I have to look so ugly when I cry? And I'm only making a million dollars a month, but I don't look like that when I cry. I'm starting to cry. What if people judge me for CR.
Playing this ridiculous game of comparing ourselves to other people? And I just bring that up because I do it too. And so when I went to actually put something together for you.
I feel like I'm here looking here. And full disclosure, I think some of you are probably better tacticians than me at a lot of what will be covered yesterday, today.
So all this to say, I feel like I'm one of you. And when you look at people who are on stage or you look at people in the room, they are running around with the exact same insecurities as you, worried that you're judging them and everybody else is judging them. And we all are all human beings. So I know what it's like to sit in an audience at a conference like this and to look at somebody on stage and feel that comparison game and to feel like it's a mountain that you have to climb. And I hate being the guy who's on stage saying, I sold a company for a whack ton of money.
And knowing that somebody is going to have that same comparison. So before we begin. I got it, too. We all got it. So there's nothing magical about me. There's nothing magical about anybody on stage. There's nothing magical about anybody. Except some people double down on their strengths, some people give more to the marketplace than others, and some people get the result. That's the only difference.
