A short conversational clip (Hannah Hammond and an unnamed speaker) criticizing ego-driven social behavior that prioritizes impression management over learning. The speakers contrast boasting/performative networking with adopting a lifelong-student mindset — valuing absorption of others' knowledge over demonstrating status. The piece closes with Hammond’s quip about wanting her tombstone to read that she "was the best student that ever lived."
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You know how I know someone's a loser and I don't want to be their friend? I watch them and they walk into rooms or situations or life or whatever it is. They are concerned with controlling and altering the opinions other people have of them and it prevents them from learning. They're the people that show up to the dinner party or the networking event or the mastermind and they're telling you and telling stories and giving advice, boasting and like trying. You could just tell like it's really important to them that you know that they're successful and you know that they know what whatever that thing is. That's like just so much ego driven stuff that I think really holds people back. What I've practiced is to be an obsessive student of the game. I don't care if I'm worth incrementally more than you or you're worth incrementally more than me. It's irrelevant. Not here to impress you. I'm here to suck value from you and be a sponge.
Talk about that with Robert Kiyosaki all the time. Being a never ending student. Like I want to die and have on my graveyard that I was the best student that ever lived.