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Richard Schuster

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Jul 23, 2026

5:04
Maybe the things I was focusing on before just weren't the thing I should have been focusing on.
5:11
I would say for me, this was the first majorly public failure in my life.
5:16
You know, I mean, I will be the first to admit when I was an undergrad that Really, until I got to graduate school, I really never applied scholastically.
5:26
So my parents would complain, why aren't your grades matching your aptitude testing scores? But I told everybody I know with chest-beating fury how successful I was going to be, how much money I was going to write, all the stuff I talked about before.
5:43
And so – I, this didn't happen overnight for me.
5:47
Like I went back to that job.
5:48
I went back to that business that I co-founded and nothing was ever the same for me.

9 MINS LATER

15:19
Yeah.

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