Tom Effs Around

GaryVee said to make a video telling the world exactly what you suck at. So at 2am, unable to sleep, in sweatpants and slippers, I hit record.

It comes down to two things. One, I care way too much about what other people think of me. Two, I don’t stick with things.

I go back to the earliest memory I have of it: pretending not to know my first-grade crush because I was trying to play it cool. Then one joke in high school that I let define me. Then college, where I only went out if I was drunk. Then playing football I hated because my big brother said I should.

Then the follow-through problem. There’s the graveyard of business ideas. There’s being laid off twice in 12 months. And there’s the time I quit my own series, which was about not quitting.

So this is my mark in time. I’m going to keep posting, keep messing around and see what sticks, for as long as it takes. One minute of piano a day for 10 years. That I can handle.

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