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Hustle, hustle, hustle. Sleep was sin in my household. I think mom, mom and dad maybe could have been a little more
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lenient with the successes that we had and let when we did parade, when my brother did win the the track meet and
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walk through the house like this to allow him to do that and and and you weren't allowed to you weren't allowed
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to do that. You were immediately humbled no matter if you were coming right off a
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victory or a win or a box office hit. You weren't allowed to. At the same time, wherever we went
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in the world, we might have been a little nervous to take a risk at. She was like, "Don't walk in there like you
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want to buy the place. Walk in like you own it." So, a sort of boosting up of what you could say is massive ego, but
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also you were not allowed to walk on your proverbial toes. In our family, you were raised up once you were humbled. We
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were taught resilience. Heavy heavy duty resilience. Baseline gratitude. Quit asking me for new shoes. I'm going
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to introduce you to the kid with no feet. Whoa. Okay. Like sobering. These were were these apherisms from my
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mother. Yeah. But they were pounded into us. All right. At the same time, I was went 36 years thinking I was
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little Mr. Texas cuz my mom told me I was until 36 years later. I look at the trophy and it says I was runner up. I
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go, "Oh, mom was like overselling us to ourselves at the same time. You better be humble and you can, you know, it was
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a you get what you need and you don't flaunt it, but yet you so where was that confidence?
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Believe in yourself was big." So it was almost like that the out anything exterior
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should not give you your identity. Even though my mom's maliprop and fibbing to us going, "You're little Mr. Texas." Or,
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"Here, write this poem. I know you didn't write it, but it's really good. So, turn that in for the seventh grade
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poetry contest." Okay. And I win. It's true story. So, this outlaw logic of my mom and my dad also with work
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ethic. Hustle, hustle, hustle. Sleep was sin in my household. Sin. I saw my dad asleep one time in my life. Respect
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yourself. Respect others. Give a damn about yourself. Give a damn about others.