The Narrative Intelligence Method for Landing a Job | Joshua Green

So what I love about that is, um, I often find that people usually bump into what they're supposed to be at some point very early on in their life, but they have no idea that that's what that is.

Mm-hmm.

And so, you know, you bumped into it, and we were talking about this the other day, in terms of, like, you were like, "Hey, I'm gonna go jump in the pond, grab some golf balls, and sell them." Like, I know there's, there's a way to make some money here, and I know that I'm capable of doing these things, and I can either say, "That's really hard.

I don't wanna do that," or I can say, "I'm gonna jump in the pond.

I'm gonna go get some balls out of there.

I'm gonna go sell them, and I'm gonna be, like, walking away with some extra, extra change in my pocket based on the fact that I took a few minutes to go do things other people won't do." Um, you know, I think for most entrepreneurs, that's the story.

That's the story most people don't see.

Most people are like, "Oh, you should run your own company.

That sounds so sexy."

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So exciting, right? It's, it's one of those things that, like, hey, I can, I can do this, and, uh, and it'll be a piece of cake, and I'll just be, you know, enjoying the finer things in life, and my schedule will be four hours a day, and, uh, and that's that, right? But it's not quite that for an entrepreneur.

So I, I love that it began early and you weren't afraid of it.

You were like, "Hey, this is what I'm gonna do," and jumped right in.

It, it... 'Cause I, I don't know how other people grow up, but I remember, like, as a kid, not having a lot of money and seeing other kids and families with m- like, and just being like, "Oh," like, "well how did you get those clothes, and how did you get that Nintendo, and how did you get the-"

Mm-hmm.

And I was like, "Okay, well, I want these things," and it was always just like, "We can't afford it.

We can't afford it.

We can't afford it." It was just drilled into me as a kid, and I was like, "Well, there's go- like, how...?" And, like, I don't remember what compelled me to dive in the wa- Like, I'm try- like, I try to think back to them, like, why was I swimming?

Mm.

Like, am I...

I think I remember my brother was doing it, and so I was like, "Well, I wanna do that, too." Like, I want...

And so, like, we were, like, I remember we were diving in, and then he had to go to school, and I was like, "Well, I don't yet." And so, like, I was just, then I was like, then I was just doing that, and I remember, like, just, like, jumping in and being like, "Cool, now I can afford candy at the 7-Eleven." 'Cause, like, the 7-Eleven back in the day, I have no idea if it still does this or not, I haven't been to a 7-Eleven in years, but it had, like, the candy in the rows where you could stick, like, your, you know, with the tongs and you could grab, like, you could collect a bag of candy.

Oh, I remember those.

Yeah.

Yeah.