As Don Murray once said, the audience does not turn the page because of a hunger to applaud.

What we all have to understand is that the end of the day, the only thing that matters is how good is your product.

Whether you're trying to build a company or you're trying to be a kick-ass employee or you're trying to be the best parent of all time at the end of the day,

the only thing that matters is getting good. The only thing that matters is actually delivering an extraordinary performance.

Until you get to that point where you can actually knock it out of the park, until you get to the point where you can captivate people with what you're able to do,

you haven't gotten anywhere. If you want to be great, if you want to leave a legacy, if you want to be remembered,

you've got to focus on the acquisition of skills. You have to focus on actually getting good.

That's the only thing that's really going to capture people's imagination. And as Vinsel and Barty said,

the man on top of the mountain didn't fall there. It's so tempting to look at people that have achieved the extraordinary

and dismiss them as being more talented than you, better than you. But what you need to see is the simple truth.

They've worked harder than you. They've earned something that you haven't yet earned. But here's the great news.

That's empowering. Once you understand that they've just busted ass, once you understand that they've just put in an inhuman

amount of work and that the only thing that distinguishes the people that are on top of the mountain, the people that have really done something that's going to last,

is that they put in the effort. They work on themselves. They understand that through discipline and effort, over time, that we can get better.

That is the human condition. That is the thing that I find most beautiful about being a person. It doesn't matter if you're bad today.

It doesn't matter where you start. It only matters where you're willing to go and the price that you're willing to pay to get there.

And once you buckle down and you assure yourself and back it up with action that you're willing to pay any price to achieve the things that you want to achieve,

then you'll really be living a limitless life. You'll be able to do the things that are important. And as Elon Musk said, if something is important enough, you should try,

even if the probable outcome is failure. And that's where most people stop. And this is one of the drives me crazy. And this is the thing about really trying to do something with your life.

Yes, you might fail. Yes, you might embarrass yourself. You might end up doing a face plant. You might end up wishing that you hadn't even started.

But if it's important enough, even in that moment, you've got to get back up and ask yourself, honestly, where did I fail?

What was the skill that I didn't have that was required of this task? And once you stop beating yourself up, once you stop turning inward with a judgment of, I'm not good enough,

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