Why Balance Is the Enemy of Greatness | David Senra

Sometimes I think I should shut up and not say the things I say on podcasts. David Sedra. David Sedra. The guy's name is David Sedra. He's got a podcast called Founders. To even get on Founders podcast, you have to be so good at your job. Somebody wrote a fucking book about it. That's an insane highball. It's almost like it's an obsession. It is. I'm addicted. I've known you now for, I don't know, four or five years. I think you are crazier now than you were. I'm not balanced. I don't think I can be balanced. I don't think I want to be balanced. I want to be the best in the world at what I do. People are like, oh, ten thousand hours. I'm way past that. Like, way past that. So, of course, I've changed. I'm not doing this to stay the same. The difference between the world's greatest and pretty good, it's not a little bit better. Better. It's not 20% better. It's, like, thousand times better. And that is hard to grasp. Mediocrity is invisible until passion shows up and exposes it. I've become intolerable for people that are casual, and I don't even know why I'm like that. I think I was lying to myself for a while that I don't need anybody else. I wanted professional success to say I was born in the wrong environment. And I will prove to you that I am not like the rest of these people. People. It's almost like a revenge for being born. Are you a happy person? I don't think you're happy. I Okay. So You have to look this guy up. You have to look this guy up. You have to see what he looks like. He looks more like a gazelle than a human being. Because the thing about, world class athletes and runners is you see them, like, when they're exerting themselves and, like, wearing their, like, running gear or whatever. And so they're like, yeah. He looks amazing. But then you see him in real clothes, and you're like, oh my god. That person is so much skinnier, has so much less body fat than the average Joe. How on earth are these two human beings both human beings? Like a normal person versus Elut. And so so he he runs a marathon, I think, of, like, two zero one, which is, like, four thirty six, I think, for the mile. Crazy fast. And what we were saying was the difference between the world's greatest or the best there ever was and pretty good, you know, it's not a little bit better. It's not 20 better. It's, like, 10 times better or a 100 times better. Or a thousand. Or a thousand times better. And that is hard to grasp. Do you agree? Yeah. I mean, you asked me, like, what am I thinking? Right before we started recording, you saw what I was doing. Like, what are …