A 22-year-old took control of his career during a market downturn, buying into strong brands trading at rock-bottom prices. Speaker B notes this kind of forward-thinking is rare at that age, calling it a real-time learning opportunity instead of the usual panic response.
I did not want to leave my career to the hands of anyone but myself. And so I remember going home that night thinking everybody thinks these jobs are safe, but I looked at the broad stock market, said, look at these amazing companies that have huge brand, deep equity value, trading for nothing. Yeah. So put that in the skull locker for future scenario. These things all come in cycles. How do I prevent myself getting caught negatively in the next cycle?
I just want to acknowledge, like, that is a fascinating thing at 22 to say, how how do I store this away and prevent this from happening to me in the future? Like most people, I imagine when they're in a chaotic situation like that, just go into fight, flight, or freeze and are just trying to tread water. And instead you are real-time using that as a learning opportunity and pattern recognition and saying, okay, how do I use this as a stepping stone to get better?
