James Laughlin spent his twenties trying to be the smartest person in the room, until he realized it was killing his growth. He started hiring people bigger and better than himself, and his business took off.
I never want to be the smartest person in the room because if I am, I'm in the wrong room. That's very different. Now when I was started out in 29 years old, I was a young business owner and as my ego and insecurity got in the way and I probably I did feel then that I wanted to be the smartest person in the room and that hindered my growth substantially, business wise, personally, etc. And when I made that evolution to hiring people that were bigger, better, faster than me, my businesses started to explode. And so but that was a learning process.
