Was it necessary to sacrifice your health as much as you have over the last few years to reach your current level?

I don’t think sacrificing my health was necessary; I took an all‑or‑nothing approach, and part of the sacrifice was outside my control—I was playing pickleball, got sick with a viral infection, and strained my right shoulder, which together gave me brachioraditis and kept me from doing the health activities I wanted. Instead I went “balls deep into work.” I procrastinate like the average person and mentioned the 20/80 rule (likely meaning 80/20). I understand where you’re coming from. My view on health versus success is that once people reach a certain level of wealth or income, they start investing in health because it’s all they have left to invest in, and many wish they’d done it earlier. Investing in health means different things for different people: for some it’s mental health, walks on the beach, or the right partners; for me it was literal physical health. I see a trend where, after hitting a certain number, people wonder what’s next—and that number varies per person. For me that number was reasonably low; I’ve observed others at ten times that level arriving at the same realization. Chris then asked about the book I referenced—it’s The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfus, and I don’t expect a sequel. Casper praised the breakdown and congratulated me on winning the games, calling it cool and informative and thinking they’d already done it. Before moving on to delegating and outsourcing, I recommended Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell, which I’d just been tipped about and have in my Apple Books library. Benjamin said it’s incredibly interesting and highlighted the key insight that you don’t need to listen to Hormosi for two hours daily twice while working out because you’re already proficient at what he teaches; I’m doing that by listening to Hormosi at the gym, aiming to watch every long‑form video he’s published (he has too many shorts to count) to see his journey, since I feel mine is similar in a slightly different industry, noting Hormosi was bright‑eyed and young when he started seven or eight years ago and suggesting to check his early videos. I pointed out how funny it is to watch Hormosi walk through a sketchy, trashy gym with no lights, bad paint job, and hear him say, “Look at this thing—who would want to work out here?” while noting he turned that gym into $35,000 in five days, which I think is cool. I also said seeing his shift from management‑consulting style to bro‑gym marketing back to digital because of COVID is interesting and would illuminate my own path. Finally, Beyblade Knight remarked that I don’t have to follow that route.