Today I learned that there are other stuff I could do. When I first got into making rap music I was 19 and very enthusiastic about the craft. I had been listening to rappers my entire life. And to me for a very long time the pinnacle of success in my mind’s eye was a rapper with millions of fans. Up until recently I held to that belief. Though even still the year after year I knew I wouldn’t pursue a career in music for the entirety of my life. The older I got I saw men like Elon Musk, Jeff Beezos, and Mark Zuckerberg to be the pinnacle of what I would like to be. Something about creating a product and having people use it everyday really strikes a chord within me. After I realized that I would like to one day go in that direction I made a deal with myself that once I made some considerable success in music I would head in that direction. But after listening to a Gary Vee podcast talking about how he saw entrepreneurship as like boxing, were practically everybody has losses I didn’t feel so bad cutting loose my ties with music. I don’t see the time I spent doing music has gone in vain. The way I am is I have to see something for myself. Even if people tell me it’s not gonna work. I have to put in the work and see for my own two eyes. Had I never pursued music I would 100% have that desire compounding in my heart and in my mind. Though I love music like most people there was a part of me honestly getting into it because I felt that was the only way I could get the world to validate me and see me as a good enough person. But after doing this podcast I realized that I am enough and that I don’t need to be famous, have a lot of girls, or even make a lot of money to validate that. I’m enough because I’m never going to stop trying to push myself to be a better person. That’s a person who I’d want my son to be. Realizing that released the shackles I had to my rap ambitions. Taking that logic course made me realize how much I love solving difficult problems. I think my potential overlaps being an entertainer. I was trying to reach a specific community of people through my music. I think I could reach the same community of people and service them in an even more meaningful with the next idea that I have.