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I don't want to work with people I don't enjoy, that I don't think are like good
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people, because I don't want to spend my time with somebody who I don't trust.
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>> When you hire people, what are you looking for? What are the like the key
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characteristics? >> First and foremost, you want someone with a strong sense of self and a strong
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like orientation towards like agency. You could have a brilliant person, but if they don't have like good judgment or
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if they're not like a selfarter, it's very hard to give them that. It's very
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hard to sort of give them good judgment. And some of it's like street smarts,
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right? How can you both be trustworthy >> and not be disappointed or burn too
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often? You have an instinct about a person >> and you can read a room and and that's
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like EQ skills and those are those are a little bit harder to teach. So I look for that. I look for good people at the
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end of the day. like I don't want to do a deal with I don't want to work with
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people I don't enjoy that I don't think are like good people because I don't
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want to spend my time with somebody who I don't trust or who I don't respect. So
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that's like really core and fundamental for me. I actually tell my kids this all
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the time because I think so much of the outside world is like impress me by what
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you do. Like impress me by what you accomplish. the grades, the trophies, the the badges of like external
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validation and success. Like our whole life is oriented towards that, the validation that comes from the outside
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world. I always want my kids to know like how I'm going to validate them is like be a good person. Like you want to
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impress me, like be a good