Modern Wisdom · 2026-03-26 · 64 min · 11,755 words

The Hotdog Effect: Secrets of the World’s #1 Restaurants - Will Guidara - #1076

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I started listening to emo music when I was 12 and 13, like everybody else, uh, except I never grew out of it. So I'm I'm permanently in uh band t-shirts that 14-year-old me would think are sick. And um that's it. Dude, isn't isn't that like one of the greatest forms of of success if 14-year-old you would be proud of you now? 14-year-old U thinks that you're cool.

Yeah. 14-year-old U is saying, gosh, he's like, he's done something with himself, but he's still wearing the bear-tooth t-shirt. Yeah. What do you think 14-year-old U would say about you? I think 14-year-old me would be pretty psyched.

I mean, man, I've uh when I was 12, I wanted to be in restaurants. Um, it's literally the only thing I ever wanted to do when I was a kid. And so for 14 year old me to see that I did that at the absolute highest level and then somehow managed to find another life to carve out for myself afterwards, I think he'd be pretty I think you'd be pretty impressed. What a cool what a cool concept of what would 14-year-old you think about adult you as basically the ultimate gauge of whether or not your life's gone well.

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