Oct 16, 2026 · 3 min · 5 segments
What Ballet Taught the Founder of a $22B Company EO stands for Entrepreneurship & Opportunities. Follow the podcast & turn on notifications for new episodes. EO Socials: Twitter…
Melanie PerkinsGuest
And the other side is, like, kind of like this delayed gratification side that, to me, I liked doing things that were hard and, and painful in a lot of ways because I thought there was gonna be a big reward or something that I really was looking forward in the end.
And, and that's why ballet is very, very good because you rehearse for, like, a year to have one hour on stage, right? So those things, in a lot of ways, I think my personality matched the kind of challenge I was, I was setting myself up for.
It was like I wanted to figure out how to both excel in normal school and in ballet, and I wanted to do that, and I knew it was around three years ahead.
So it was kind of like a eye on the target type of thing, but definitely not typical teenager.
I remember, like, multiple weekends that I'm like, "Wow, I don't have exams next week.
I can just sleep, like, eight hours," and my friends would be going to parties and all that stuff, and it was just definitely not me.
And the other side is, like, kind of like this delayed gratification side that, to me, I liked doing things that were hard and, and painful in a lot of ways because I thought there was gonna be a big reward or something that I really was looking forward in the end.
And, and that's why ballet is very, very good because you rehearse for, like, a year to have one hour on stage, right? So those things, in a lot of ways, I think my personality matched the kind of challenge I was, I was setting myself up for.
It was like I wanted to figure out how to both excel in normal school and in ballet, and I wanted to do that, and I knew it was around three years ahead.
So it was kind of like a eye on the target type of thing, but definitely not typical teenager.
I remember, like, multiple weekends that I'm like, "Wow, I don't have exams next week.
I can just sleep, like, eight hours," and my friends would be going to parties and all that stuff, and it was just definitely not me.
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