Jul 20, 2026 · 32 min · 10 segments
Leadership expert Ryan Hawk tackles one of the biggest traps for ambitious entrepreneurs: dabbling in everything and committing to nothing. Ryan unpacks the idea of “beefing up your obituary” by…
Jason FeiferHostI'm in Scottsdale, Arizona at my Learning Leader Growth Summit, um, two years ago.
I'm inviting in, his name is Ed Latimore, heavyweight boxer, physicist, chess player.
He, he used this phrase that what he's trying to do in his life is beef up his obituary.
And so my natural question was, "Ed, well, how do you beef up your obituary?" And he said, "Well, at the end, they're gonna say he didn't dabble."
Meaning in a, in a world where we have infinite choice, infinite options, if you look at the people who have sustained excellence over an extended period of time, they've made a commitment to continually focus on that thing day after day.
I'm in Scottsdale, Arizona at my Learning Leader Growth Summit, um, two years ago.
I'm inviting in, his name is Ed Latimore, heavyweight boxer, physicist, chess player.
He, he used this phrase that what he's trying to do in his life is beef up his obituary.
And so my natural question was, "Ed, well, how do you beef up your obituary?" And he said, "Well, at the end, they're gonna say he didn't dabble."
Meaning in a, in a world where we have infinite choice, infinite options, if you look at the people who have sustained excellence over an extended period of time, they've made a commitment to continually focus on that thing day after day.
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