Leaders don't retire—they evolve #LeadershipWisdom #LifelongLearning #GrowthMindset

6 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Donald Burns about leadership as ongoing learning and humility. The speaker recounts overcoming ego, shifting from preaching to asking questions on his team, and states explicit personal goals: he is 63 years old, aims to open 50 restaurants, and plans to live to 100, hoping to 'go to bed and not wake up' after opening his 50th restaurant.

Questions this video answers

63 years old.

50 (the night after opening his 50th restaurant he hopes to 'go to bed and not wake up').

To live to 100 years old.

Chapters

I've suffered from ego in the past and thinking, man, I know it all, and I got this down, and I'm the guy, you know, if you get beat up long enough in this business, you take some knocks and you start knowing, you know what? I'm still learning. And I don't preach to my team anymore, man. I just ask questions a lot. What should we do here? What do you think about this? What do you. And, you know, and sometimes they're right. Sometimes I don't agree, but I'm gonna let them know, you know, I think. I like that. I think that's a great point. But what if. What if we. Let's try it this way or, you know, something like that. So I don't know it all. And I'm, you know, I'm never going to retire. I'm 63 years old. My plan, I think I'm going to live to 100. Good. I'm serious. I'm going to do it. I'm going to live to 100. I'll try to take good care of myself. And my goal is to. The night after I've opened my 50th restaurant, I just want to go to bed and not wake up at 100 years old. That's my. Yeah, that's a good goal. I like that goal. You're gonna go out. That's the way. That's the best way to go. Yeah.