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Sahil Bloom

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“Yeah, and I think it's the combination here that's important. So, you know, we live in a world where, especially today, a lot of people want to focus on the inputs. And you have all these people like, oh, you know, you should really care about the inputs and just focus on feeling proud of the inputs. And I actually agree with that to some extent. Because at the end of the day, the world will judge you for your outputs. It doesn't matter whether you feel great about the input, the deep work routine, the morning routine, all of the rituals that you had, if your output is. And athletes know that, right? We do. We focus on the inputs. Absolutely. You show up at practice every single day, but we also know that no one gets an eighth place medal. They're not participation. No, they're not handing those out. And you have to learn that in life. I have a two and a half year old son now, and I want him to know that. And it's sort of a harsh truth of the world that like, yes, your inputs matter and I want you to focus on them and be proud of them and can.”
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“There's a reason that a lot of athletes and a lot of military, former military, end up being incredible employees and team members because they have had to battle. They understand that failure is not final, that it's a learning lesson, that you can take the event, learn the lesson from it, and move on to the next situation that you face.”
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“Effectively, every single lesson that I feel I have benefited from in my career was something that I learned in baseball. I think first off, teamwork and the ability to manage multiple diverse personalities in a single environment is a meta-skill for life that rarely gets taught. And a team forces you to learn that very early and very quickly. And if you don't, you will not function as a team. Like the understanding that not everyone is wired the same, that not everyone is motivated by the same things, that you need to meet people where they are. And then hopefully all rise to the level of the expectations you have as a group. That is really an important lesson to learn for life. Look, the other one, which people talk about often, is just the alpha that you can generate through resilience as a human being. And it is very, very difficult to develop in a context outside of sports. And I think that”
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“Impressive what she actually built and what she created in her life and the intelligence that she displays and the grace with which she displays it has always wowed me. And look, I cold emailed her when I was at Stanford to try to ask her to be my master's advisor and was fortunate that she at least gave me a chance to go speak to her in person and convince her to do that. And I got to take her course that she teaches at Stanford, which was sort of a small group live, basically live action seminar where you kind of do these simulations of real world foreign policy events where each person is sort of taking on a different role and you go through these simulations like get woken up at two in the morning to go through some crisis event. And it was just fascinating to have someone in the room like her who had actually been through those things and hear the stories she told about her battles with Vladimir Putin and whatnot. It was just incredible.”
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“I mean, she's a remarkable woman. Politics aside. I mean, a woman who grew up in the Deep South in Alabama and rose to become secretary of state of the United States of America. I mean, just mind-blowing.”
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“I think so. Hindsight's 2020 on these things, there's always a silver lining, as they say. I think what would have happened if I had tried to play professionally was I would have ended up spending three, four, or five years toiling around in some bus in the middle of nowhere in the minors and then ended up having to go start at 28 or 29 rather than 22.”
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“To be honest, I don't think I knew. I've never been a very good planner my entire life. My dad's an economics professor, and so economics seemed like a good undergraduate plan, but frankly, at the time, my real plan was to go play professional baseball. My entire life had been a baseball player. I got a scholarship to play at Stanford, played there, and probably somewhat naively thought that I could go make a career out of it, playing in the big leagues. And a shoulder injury, my end of my junior season sort of derailed those aspirations and I had to find my footing in something else.”
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