Why Balance Is the Enemy of Greatness | David Senra

Sometimes I think I should shut up and not say the things I say on podcasts. David Senra. David Senra. The guy's name is David Senra. He's got a podcast called Founders. To even get on Founders podcasts, you have to be so good at your job. Somebody wrote a f book about it. That's an insanely high ball. It's almost like it's an obsession. It is, I'm addicted. I've known you now for I don't know four or five years. I think you are crazier now than you were. I'm not balanced. I don't think I can be balanced. I don't think I want to be balanced. I want to be the best in the world at what I do. People are like, oh, 10,000 hours. I'm way f<unk>ed past that. Like way past that.

So Of course I've changed. I'm not doing this to stay the same. The difference between the world's greatest and pretty good, it's not a little bit better. It's not 20% better. It's like thousand times better. And that is hard to grasp. Mediocrity is invisible until passion shows up and exposes it. I've become intolerable. For people that are casual and I don't even know why I'm like that. I think I was lying to myself.

For a while. That I don't need anybody else. I wanted professional success to say I was born in the wrong environment and I will prove to you So I am not like the rest of these people. It's almost like a revenge for being born. Are you a happy person?

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