In today's episode, this is a throwback, but I'm talking about 13 lessons that I wish I had learned earlier.

This is definitely more from a business owner perspective, but just some hard learned stuff that

people seem to have really liked a lot. So enjoy.

13 lessons I learned after graduating college from the real world that I wish I had learned earlier.

The first is that

you make better decisions and you learn more by assuming that you're dumber than everyone else.

And the reason this was something that took me a long time to learn is that when I was in college,

it was all about showing how smart you were. It was about talking more in the group meetings.

It was about raising your hand more in the classroom and proving how smart

you were in every way that you possibly could. And so I took that and started translating in the

real world and I realized that I didn't learn very much because I was the one talking all the time.

And it only took a few times of me getting introduced to somebody because I wish I could just tell you

it was once, but it wasn't. Or I get introduced to someone. Someone would introduce us and I would

basically spend the whole time blabbering on about how great I was and how much I knew,

only to find out later that this person was way above me in business and whatever things that I

was pursuing at the time. And then I felt tons of shame and embarrassment about how stupid I was for doing that.

And so I had to shift the way that I talked to new people and the way that I answered rooms.

And I'll be real, I still talked probably too much.

But at least being aware of that lesson as early as it could. I wish I had learned it earlier.

But fundamentally, you can't learn if you're talking. Obviously this is it. And so if you're

trying to learn, then not talking is the first requisite for doing that. And if you want to make

better decisions, then you need to learn. And so if you talk less and listen more, which is why this is

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