Two speakers reflect on growth through adversity. Speaker B describes losing his father while managing a building project that failed twice due to his inexperience, until he brought in someone with deeper expertise. Both emphasize that not knowing everything is what drives you forward.
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I. You know, I know I don't know everything. And it's a. It's a big, bad world, and there's a lot of good out there, and let's see where I belong. And it's sort of like you come into yourself and you own it. And that, what a gift. I mean, at that. At that time in your life, what a gift. And.
It is. It was also a huge challenge. You know, I can remember at that point, after my dad passing, that we were going to. Going through approval on a new project. The city council. I didn't understand some of the principles of building relationships and stuff like that. And so the city council and I were on rocky terms, unfortunately, because of some mistakes I did. But then as we went through the building process, they actually shut us down twice. Because they looked at me as just a pipsqueak kid, and you don't know much, right? And the truth was, I didn't. And the second time they shut us down, they said, mike, you need to hire someone who knows more than you do in this space.