Career Transitions and Setbacks

phone but I didn't silence my watch there we go it's silenced I've always looked at failures is an opportunity to know how far you are from succeeding and I think that's um written in my gym on the wall in my gym and you know it's um and so throughout those failures I just go okay you know I'll pick myself up and move on and go from there and I think being an athlete is um you know you learn a lot of those life lessons being an athlete and you know something that you know is very Vivid to me I started racing bikes and I remember one of the very first races you I was racing in it was a road race and I was dropped by the pelaton I was left you know all alone on the road and and I said you know I almost had just got off my bike and it said you know um I'm just going to quit and I said you know what I'm just going to keep you know riding and I'm not going to give up and you know you never know what can happen of this and eventually another writer caught up to me another writer caught up to me and pretty soon there was a group of five of us and we're all writing together and you know eventually caught the pelaton and you know you never know what's going to come your way and so I've always had this attitude of just you know no matter what comes your way um if you don't succeed you know what it's um an opportunity to learn and all end up succeeding in the end and do you think that you're obv see in a great marriage with your wife do you think with your excessive like compulsive like Behavior do you think that your wife plays such a great role in kind of calming you down CU she was obviously very supportive of like moving with you all the way to Idaho you know that's you know um in order to have a successful marriage you know I think you have to have um you know two partners that are working with each other and um I would say my wife it had always been by my side and you know whether I succeeded or failed she was