How to find your thing

Dude, when you use the word stack, I get all fired up. Dude, why don't we just describe our podcast that way? Us, founders acquired. It's the most potent stack up to stop user boosting for founders. Yeah. I feel like I can rule the world. Alright. So, Sam, I was in Austin last week, and I was at a restaurant. So we're sitting down at the table. Guy comes up, and he's a fan of the podcast. And he says, hi. And he was like, oh, yeah. I love the episodes to you and Sam. Blah blah blah. And I asked him. I go, what's one thing you want us to talk about? We're getting it we're almost a thousand episodes in. He need a little inspiration. And so I said, what's one thing you want us to talk about? And he goes, well, I don't know what other people want, but here's what I want. And he told me he's, he's 24 years old. He's like, I know I'm smart. I know I'm hard hardworking. I just don't know kinda which lane to go in. I'm ready to swim, but I don't know which lane to go in. And what he said was he's like, you know, basically the generic advice is like, yo, just follow your passion. And he basically described this problem, which is like, I've been in school. My teachers, my parents, like, I was told what to do. You gotta take these classes. You gotta get take these tests. You gotta get these marks. And that's it's, like, super structured. All of a sudden, graduates. Now he's just on his own. So went from super structured to completely unstructured. And he's like, I know that I should be doing something. My friends are all doing this. I don't think I wanna do that banking, consulting type of jobs. And his question was basically they say follow your passion, but how? How do you actually do that? Like, what would you guys actually do if you could go back? So that's what I wanted to talk about. Why I think that follow your passion is terrible advice and what you should do instead. Great. I think I I will mostly it sounds like I based off your one line response right there, I might agree with you on everything. First of all, I wanna hear what advice you gave him. But you told me that you wanted to you also looked at the history of following your passion. Is that true? Well, I have a historical kinda reference. So I was reading this thing by Joseph Campbell. He famously came up with a hero's journey. So Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The circle that explains how Star Wars works and Harry Potter and all the great stories, they sort of start with the same structure. So this guy, Joseph Campbell, he gave a lot of interviews about, his philosophy. And he had this better this phrase that …