A founder traces his lifelong pattern of crying over losses, from childhood sports to business, and argues that emotional intensity is a strategic advantage, not a weakness. He channels that passion into his leadership style and upcoming book, The Weeks Way.
One thing about me is I cried. I hated to lose. And anytime I did or any team I supported lost, I cried. As a Jets fan, then as a Mets fan, still currently, I cried a lot. A lot of losses. When I lost in any sport I played, I cried. I was completely obsessed, psychotic, and passionate about winning. And when I didn't, I was an idiot, crybaby, whatever. But it was discouraged. And it was something that was frowned upon. And the reality was it's my strength and it's what I do now and why I love entrepreneurship and why I'm doing all the things that I'm doing and put a book out about WIPO, The Weeks Way, which just so you know, on a side note, you can visit stan.store/weeks and check out all my offerings, one of which is my soon-to-be-released book. With that being said, back to the crybaby. It definitely is something that should have been Encouraged. It should have been developed. It should have been like, that was my strategic advantage, being obsessed to win. And coming back to that all these years later, 55, to realize that that's my advantage. I am passionate about winning. I am passionate about helping people, my team, my community, my tribe win. And today, I can still get very emotional if I talk about certain things. Yeah. If I am watching a movie that connects, and many of them do, I can connect. I can be bawling as I'm going through a TikTok if I'm consuming content. Like, I am very passionate still to this day and can be brought to tears. So, I don't downplay it any longer. I put it out there. I drive with it. I lead with it because it's my passion. So, that's that.
