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So the coolest moment of the year. All right, so last year, this time last year, Jesse came on the podcast and he explained his New Year's planning process and philosophy, how he attacks the New year. And Sam, I don't know if you remember, but, you know, we were both pretty inspired by it. And one of his core concept is this concept of a misogy. So he says, you know, the years fly by. You know, if you asked me right now, what did you do in 2018, I. I don't know. I'd have to really think, how old was I, where was I living? What was I doing? Whereas what he does is he picks a masogi, which is a Japanese ritual of a. A challenge, a hard year defining thing. So you'll always remember. Oh, that was the year I hiked, you know, this, I hiked Everest. That was the year I did my first Iron Man. That was the year I did XYZ. And he could tell you, 2015, 2016, 2017, you know, 2015, that's the year that David Goggins lived in my house and I trained with goggins. 2016, that was the year I lived with the monks. 2017, that was the year I did my first whatever. And so after the pod, I was trying to. I was like, pretty inspired. I was like, what am I gonna do? And, you know, Jesse's really adventurous. He's big into these, like, endurance races. That's never something I've been, like, drawn to. So I had the. I had the will, but I didn't have the idea. And that night I'm. Before I went to bed, I was watching. I was on YouTube and I saw this recommended video of this. I don't even know why I clicked it. It was like this dude playing the piano and it was this guy who's this Italian composer. He's basically the most famous piano player in the world at this point. He's like a modern day composer. And he was playing the song and he was playing a performance he did at the Steve Jobs theater, which is like 10 minutes away from where I was. I was at my sister's house, 10 minutes away from her house where I was that night. And I saw it and I was like, what if I did this this year? Like, forget business, forget. I was like, what if I. What if this was the year I learned, you know, I can't dance, I can't sing. I've never played a musical instrument. Like, I don't have that innate talent. But, like, what if this was. What if that's a thing I picked up? What if I could just jam out on the piano? Specifically, what if I could play this song? And so as you know, Sam, I've been practicing all year and I love the Instagram stuff. I've been learning to play. But, you know, the one thing I didn't do was like, he. The way Jesse's philosophy is, is that you. When you decide you're gonna do something, you don't just make it a wish or a, like a goal. You plan a date. It's like, I'm gonna run this race on this day. I'm gonna take my kids here on this day. It's on the calendar. It's a thing I'm working towards. So that was the one part I never did. I was like, I don't know, what am I gonna do? Piano recital. Like, I'm not like 7 years old. I don't know what to do. So yesterday, I'm at his house, and he's giving us a tour, and I'm there to do a podcast with him, another annual planning thing. And we're walking by. He's like, oh, this is my favorite thing in the house. This is a piano my mother gave me before she died. And I was like, do you play? He's like, no, I've never. Nobody's ever played this piano. Like, you know, since we got it, it's here. But I love it. And I'm like. In my head, I'm like, oh, this might be the perfect thing. Like, that was my misogi last year when we did our annual planning. We're doing it this year. He doesn't know that. He kind of triggered me to actually, like, go do something. So I was like, I'm gonna do this. So when we were talking about. I go, can I show you mine? I miss Ogi. And he's like, well, what? What do you mean? I was like, let's walk over here. And so we go and I play this song. Now I'm playing this song. No, no, it's not a singing thing. It's just a. It's just a piano song. I'm playing the song, and just the context here is like, I've been playing this every day at my house. I play upstairs in my room. And honestly, like, nobody particularly gives a fuck. Like, my wife is like, good for you, but can you come help with dinner? Like, you know, like, you know, she's like, in the middle of three little kids. Like, you know, it's not like I'm getting a pat on the back for this thing. My kids don't really care about classical piano music. My wife doesn't really care. I have never really played for anybody else, and so this is my first time ever playing for anybody. And I turn when I was done, and it was, like, the craziest thing. So Jesse's there. He's crying. His head of strategy there. She's crying, holding the phone. Sarah, his wife, who I never met, she's the founder of Spanx, had come downstairs because she heard somebody playing the piano. She's cr. She's, like, weeping. We have this. It's gonna be crazy. It's all on camera, too. I happen to have a camera guy there because recording the podcast. So basically, like, there's this full circle moment of last year. He planted the seed. I worked hard on it all year. No, there was no real, like, payoff for it. There's no, like, purpose for doing. I just wanted to do it. And then there was like this amazing payoff moment where they actually gave a shit about, like, what I was doing. And they, like, appreciated. They were like, that was amazing. And I never felt that, like, ever. And so it was. For me, it was not only the coolest one, it's one of the coolest moments of my life, if I'm being perfectly honest. I'm a little embarrassed to say it, but it really was this, like, incredible, like, high this. And it was totally serendipitous. I didn't plan for any of that to happen. It's this song called. I don't even know how you say it properly. It's Italian, but nouvelle. Beyond Shattered. I don't know how you spell. It's pronounced the second word, but I'll put in the description that one is this great song. And I was like, this. I was like, I don't know what's happening. I don't know why everyone's crying. I don't know what's going on. But, like, I feel like my parking pass just got extremely validated just now. Thank you guys for that.
