Stop blaming your past or circumstances for mediocre work. Your product is bad because you didn't put in the effort, not because of your childhood or your relationship. Do the work instead of telling yourself stories about why you can't.
Right now, many of you are creating stories that you tell yourselves to make yourself feel better about why your product isn't as good as it should be. But you have an excuse that only you need to believe, and you believe that excuse. So it excuses you from working harder on the stuff you know you should be doing but aren't. When you hear podcasts of business people and they're telling you the things that work for them, the crazy thing is that most of the time they don't know either. So this is what drives me nuts. People are like, Alex, do you think that you know, having a hard childhood, even having a troubled relationship with your father? I don't. We're fine. Do you think that is the reason that you're so driven? I'm like, I don't know. How would I know? I know that I am driven. There's a zillion things that have happened to me in my life. I don't know which one it is, but we create these narratives around it to believe it.
