The Tesstimony | Jonathan Tesser

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Memorable Quotes from the episode:

[00:21:08] "...I would give and I would give and I would give and I would help. And those people would just leave my life like they got what they needed from me and they left. And it created this idea that the human experience isn't such a wonderful thing. You have to you have to force people to be. It sounds awful, but you really have to put them on the spot and say, if you want to stick around, I'm going to show you what it means to stick around."

[00:24:37] "...mentorship for me just means how can I grow? How can I grow as a person? How can I become better? How can I how can this personal development hamster wheel continue to turn in a positive direction? And so each person I talked to, I say to them, I'm like, you are my inspiration."

Highlights of the episode:

[00:01:00] Guest Introduction

[00:03:07] Realizing that Jonathan is a data guy!

[00:09:11] Should it be something that we strongly have an opinion about or should we just do it for the audience out there?

[00:11:43] Where in the agreement when you sign up for LinkedIn, does it say don't talk about personal life?

[00:23:32] It's hard to give advice to people when you don't know them.

[00:24:29] What are some good ways find a good mentor?

[00:33:17] Ninety five percent of people don't want to put the work in.

[00:33:27] How do you deal with the notion of not really interacting with more people?

[00:35:22] Can selfishness be a virtue?

[00:37:34] What are some other self skills that highly analytical people are missing?

[00:42:32] RANDOM ROUND.

[00:42:56] It's one hundred years in the future. What do you want to be remembered for?

[00:43:32] When do you think the first video to hit one trillion views on YouTube will happen, and what will that video be about?

[00:44:33] Do you think you have to achieve something in order to be worth something?

[00:45:45] What are you currently reading?

[00:47:09] What song differently have on repeat?

[00:47:45] What dumb accomplishment are you most proud of?

[00:48:19] What makes you cry?

[00:48:35] What's your favorite Candy?

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