Codie SanchezFounder @ Contrarian Thinking

It is hard to beat the person doing the thing you call work, and they call fun.

29 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Codie Sanchez argues that people who love their work beat everyone else. She describes her packed day of workouts, podcasts, and investor meetings, then tells how Todd Graves, founder of Raising Cane's, took dangerous salmon-fishing work in Alaska to fund his business. Obsession and willingness to suffer separate winners from the rest.

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Today workout. Three podcasts, two investor meetings, and a dinner with investors. A day like today, when I've got back to back to back, I'm never thinking, God, I don't want to do this today. This is a privilege, and it's a blast. You know, Todd Graves, who started raising canes, was so obsessed with selling chicken nuggets that he flew to Alaska from Louisiana, got on one of those deadliest catch boats for the salmon fishing. People, like, die on those things. But it was the only way that he could fund raising Canes, his chicken company. And that's what an obsessed person does. You need to be obsessed about the things that you want to do, because obsessed people win. It's just really hard to beat somebody who is doing the thing that you call work and they call fun. That is how I know you're going to win or not.