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How Do You Find What You’re The Best At? (2106)

• Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros

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What if the thing you’re best at is also the thing you’re afraid to own? In this episode, Kevin and Alan unpack how to recognize your true gifts and why those gifts might come with guilt, shame, or judgment. You’ll hear hilarious stories, real talk about insecurity and excellence, and the three powerful signs that reveal your zone of genius. If you’ve ever wondered where your edge is, this episode will help you find it and embrace it. Listen now and discover what you’re here to do.

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Show notes:
(2:33) Rhyming games and early signs
(6:50) Talking big and walking it
(10:32) Childhood gifts and hidden shame
(12:47) When you're too good at something
(14:05) Meet your people. Chase your dreams. Level up your life with Next Level Group Coaching. https://www.nextleveluniverse.com/group-coaching/
(16:33) The real way to inspire others
(19:13) Three signs you’re naturally gifted
(25:40) Owning your strengths unapologetically
(27:16) Outro

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Kevin Palmieri:

Yesterday we talked all about how you got to figure out what you can be the best in the world at, or top 1%, what can you be the best version of you at? Today, we're going to talk about how to actually figure that out, because that information essentially, is useless unless you know how to use it.

Alan Lazaros:

What I've found coaching so many people is that the thing that they're really, really, really, really really good at usually has some shame around it, because typically it makes other people feel bad.

Kevin Palmieri:

Welcome to Next Level University. I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri.

Alan Lazaros:

And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazarus.

Kevin Palmieri:

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Alan Lazaros:

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Alan Lazaros:

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Kevin Palmieri:

Welcome to Next Level University, next Level Nation, today for episode number 2106. How do you find what you're best at? Alan jeffed me there a little bit in the beginning. The enunciation of his last words suggested he was going to continue, but he did not.

Alan Lazaros:

I thought I was.

Kevin Palmieri:

Well, same, the boulder was rolling down the hill and I stopped it. You stopped it very quickly. Yeah, all right. How do you find what you're best at, based on what we talked about yesterday? I've told this story before, I think, but this is this is something that has helped me connect a lot of dots. Remember aol instant messenger back in the day? Oh yeah, man right, who doesn't?

Alan Lazaros:

well, yeah, I am, if you're 22 years old.

Kevin Palmieri:

You have probably no idea what I'm talking about, because I don't think it existed anymore, unfortunately. But long before people were texting up a storm, you would log on to your computer, which probably wasn't a laptop, it was probably a desktop giant. It had a giant thing. It was massive, it weighed 30 pounds, and you would go on this thing called aol instant messenger.

Alan Lazaros:

Well, first you'd have to connect to the internet. You'd have to make sure everyone's off the phone. Yeah, you can't be on the phone. Yeah, and it would do that. Yes.

Kevin Palmieri:

Yep, I had an AOL email, yeah.

Alan Lazaros:

Are you connected? Who picked up the damn phone? Crazykid005 at AOLcom was my email address I don't know if I remember mine, man. It's a real shame. What was Emilia's how?

Kevin Palmieri:

do you remember Emilia's but not yours, because we've talked about it, but you remember emilia's but not yours? We've talked about it, but you don't remember yours? Girl 20, something, I don't know, I don't remember. I remember the, the girls I always had a crush on, always had like it was like baby girl, xoxo. It was always yeah hell. Yes, that's how you, that's how you knew, you knew so you used to do this thing where you would instant message someone that was actually my am that was yours.

Alan Lazaros:

Yeah, alas, xoxo baby girl, 25 baby jeff xoxo.

Kevin Palmieri:

So again, it was just a thing where essentially it was text message, but way worse on your computer and you had a profile and whatever. I was talking to one of my friends and this is the first time I ever realized that I was really good at rhyming words together. How old were you realized that I was really good at rhyming words together? How?

Alan Lazaros:

old were you, oh 13.

Kevin Palmieri:

Yeah, I was going to say probably like 12, 13.

Kevin Palmieri:

Middle school, yeah, middle school, middle school, for sure, yeah, middle school, middle school. Yeah, we were having a conversation and we just said like, hey, let's, let's play a game where we rhyme words together. And he was like, all right, cool, so he, he would bat and then I would rhyme cat. And we started there, nice, and it was like, uh, then we got to where we had multiple syllables, so it would be like baseball and then I would rhyme with face fall or something whatever, hypothetically.

Kevin Palmieri:

And then when we got to like three and four syllables, I realized he couldn't do it. And I realized that I could do it, nice, and I was like wait, you can't, what do you? And I realized that I could do it, nice, and I was like wait, you can't, what do you mean? It's not that hard, you just create more syllables, nice, okay, interesting. Then later in life, then after that, I started done in like five minutes and I was good to go and it took them like an hour and I was like, oh, my goodness, am I good at this? And then when we recorded, it was just our verses were very different and mine were much more lyrically focused, aka, mine were better, it's okay.

Kevin Palmieri:

No, not necessarily Because I like conscious rap, where a lot of people don't like that they're not listening, so they can get lessons they're listening. What do I think of what?

Alan Lazaros:

nefex, who, the, who the hell? Is that n-e-f-f-e-x? I don't know who that is. Uh, I know nf is basement yeah, that guy, I think, dude, I don't know, you know, I don't know started from the basement. Um, I listened to him in the fucking gym. Man, he, what's the name of the song?

Kevin Palmieri:

give me a, you got a song name, god damn it. I got you, he's got, he's got time, he's got uh hate myself.

Alan Lazaros:

He came up recently. It's gotta be within the last 10 years, he's. He's fairly new.

Kevin Palmieri:

I think he's got some bangers for the gym though I I remember, for one of our events I walked out to one of his songs.

Alan Lazaros:

You remember that no, I don't, I don't know. Like I didn't know him back, then you know what I mean. I didn't listen to him, let me I got you, I got you I'm gonna come up with it.

Kevin Palmieri:

Keep going, keep going I mean that was kind of the end. I realized that I was.

Alan Lazaros:

And E-F-F-E-X.

Kevin Palmieri:

I've never heard of this. I don't even know who this person is Never heard of him.

Alan Lazaros:

Ready you can't play it, I know, Ten seconds, you can, I'll go quick.

Kevin Palmieri:

Oh yeah, welcome to the main event. I've heard that song on instagram, but I've never listened to the whole thing.

Alan Lazaros:

I think you might not like him. Again it I think he's good. And again, emilia made the. I said emilia, do not look him up if he's not jacked. It's gonna be so hard for me because he's gonna guess he's not. He talks a big game. I'm gonna guess he's. Emilia said do not look him up. Um, for me, it's hard for me to hear someone talk such a big game and not walk it. This is a.

Kevin Palmieri:

This is a uh workout complex, um compilation with the rock in it but remember, going back to what we talked about in last episode, you can't be top one percent and everything.

Alan Lazaros:

I want to be I know same health, wealth and love. But dude this dude. He raps about fitness constantly. So in my head you ever meet someone. Let's have a conversation for a second I know I'm taking this off the rails, but this is our podcast always, always you ever meet someone who talks a fucking huge game in fitness.

Alan Lazaros:

And then you meet them and it's like oh, of course this, there's levels to this. Uh, tim ferris gave a ted talk. This is way fucking back. And for those who don't know tim ferris, he wrote the four-hour work week and in the, in the ted talk, this dude makes reference to himself as this big gorilla. And I'm sitting there going. Dude, you are hanging out with too many nerds. Man, you're not even, because at the time I was lifting with you and Matt, it's like you guys, there's levels to every game and it all depends on the rooms you're in.

Alan Lazaros:

When I was in the fitness space and I went to the personal development space, the personal development people would talk about fitness and it'd be like are you guys kidding me? Like what do you mean? You guys don't even weight train. And then you get into the business space and it's even worse. There are people who are like yeah, I'm crushing workouts. And then you look at them and it's like you guys need to go spend some time with the fitness industry. The fitness industry is a whole nother fucking level For sure.

Alan Lazaros:

And so there's levels to everything, which is again next level university, health, wealth, life and love. And again, I'm not saying everyone needs to look like the rock. What I am saying is, if you're gonna rap like you're the fucking man in fitness, you better be semi-elite I think you're gonna be disappointed in most.

Kevin Palmieri:

Most times I don't know why.

Alan Lazaros:

It's like dude, I would never rap about fitness and not be elite in fitness ever. Yeah, I know, I understand, but I that's just.

Kevin Palmieri:

That's like you and I talking about being next level and then we're like super mediocre but I think you, you and I, are very focused on making sure we walk the talk.

Alan Lazaros:

It's that is a rapping is a must.

Kevin Palmieri:

Yeah, but rapping is different why because? What about.

Alan Lazaros:

um, the guy you used to listen to, big Sean, yeah, imagine if he wasn't actually that successful and he was talking like he was.

Kevin Palmieri:

I mean that's rap, though that's how it starts. Rap is a really good representation of allowing your ego out a little bit.

Alan Lazaros:

Yeah, yeah, I know that's the hard part about it.

Kevin Palmieri:

I'll have to look him up now to see, but I'm guessing he's not jacked. I could care less. Eminem's not jacked, he's got some of the most motivational songs ever written of all time.

Alan Lazaros:

He's not rapping about fitness. He's not rapping about fitness, about how many workouts.

Kevin Palmieri:

He he's not no, no, not that nephix you.

Alan Lazaros:

He lives. He raps about being a bodybuilder straight up.

Kevin Palmieri:

I'll have to check him out all what's your take on what we're talking about today before you take us all the way off the fucking rails we're talking about.

Alan Lazaros:

How do you find what?

Kevin Palmieri:

you're the best at yeah.

Alan Lazaros:

Yeah, that's my job now. Take us off the rails. Take us off the rails and get us back on. I'll get us back, yeah.

Kevin Palmieri:

This is also the energy and you and I are always I don't know, we are like more jokey and less serious on Saturdays.

Alan Lazaros:

I find I feel great. Man. I went for a trying to optimize my life around flow and I went for a run earlier. I feel great. This is awesome. Yeah, this is a good 11 am, 12 pm. 12 pm is my optimal, optimal spot, okay. So how do you figure out, oh, what I opened with? I actually Emilia alluded to this for me and this was really big breakthrough for me.

Alan Lazaros:

She said, when you were a little kid most likely because she studied adolescence and developmental stuff and the brain develops in different stages, through different phases, and it apparently stops developing at 25. I think that's absolute bullshit. Personally and again, don't quote me on this, but when I get my phd in neuroscience I'm going to prove that wrong. There's no way it stops. But she studied the implications of social norms and dynamics and childhood development and all the stuff, and so she teaches me all that.

Alan Lazaros:

And one of the things she said is when you were a kid, you were better than other people at things and it you witnessed them feel bad about themselves and I remember this too. I had a friend in college who literally said dude, you're good at everything. And I remember I was so pumped, I was so pumped, I was so pumped. I don't think he meant it as a compliment. I think he meant it like what the fuck is like, how, like, how is this even a thing right? I'm talking Beirut ping pong. I'm a mean ping pong player Like you've never. I've been playing ping pong since I was a kid. I love it.

Kevin Palmieri:

So I hustled some dude at the bar one time but made some money. The point is, what is this? Is this the thing you hit it with he's like?

Alan Lazaros:

because I don't look, I was some fitness guy, right. So yeah, I was fitness modeling at the time. And they figure, oh, this dude's a fucking loser, right? He's not gonna be good at ping pong, like all right, yeah, no, I'm, I'm not. You know, I played a few times. It was awesome anyways, different, different time.

Alan Lazaros:

My point of all this isn't that I'm great at everything. That's not my point. My point is, when you are on the statistical high end of something, a lot of times you actually feel bad about it. There's someone on the NLU team who is really, really, really good how do I keep this vague enough for people not to know what I'm talking about who's really good at kind of everything with tech and computers and everything internet based. She's had two jobs since she was fucking 16 and they always had to do with computers and that kind of thing. And I have her training somebody on our team and she has a hard time understanding where someone else is. It's very difficult seriously to like.

Alan Lazaros:

When I first did Google Sheets with you, I was like, are you fucking kidding me, man? Like, on what planet can you not know spreadsheets Like this is the 21st century, right? And I know that sounds judgy. I'm not trying to judge. I'm trying to understand where the hell everyone's at, but you could have said the same thing to me at 24, with squatting 300 pounds. So you, you have to look at where you make other people insecure. There is no version. It's impossible. This is my thesis. It is impossible to be really fucking good at something and to not make others insecure. It's impossible. That's a. That's a good piece of feedback is I guarantee you, I witnessed someone get insecure about rapping with you. I witnessed it and you don't have a bad relationship with that Cause. I don't think you were usually on that end with love, but I have a terrible relationship with being better than and I've had to really work on that. You're not allowed to talk about it. You're not.

Kevin Palmieri:

I was on that end with fitness, though, for sure, but I I don't, I don't feel bad about it.

Alan Lazaros:

I put in the work. Do you get upset when other people so? When you used to take your shirt off and you looked fucking ripped and jacked and you obviously weren't breathing and you weren't breathing? Did you see other people get upset? Could you witness it? I could witness it, dude, especially when I was a fitness model.

Kevin Palmieri:

Next Level Nation. What is happening? If you've thought to yourself I want to try coaching, but you don't really know where to start, group coaching would be a wonderful place for you. That's really why we created it in the first place. We start a new round every 90 days. So if you're hearing this, go to the website nextleveluniversecom and we have the landing page where you can actually hold your spot right now. Even if there's a group going on right now, you can still lock your spot for the next one. The biggest thing that we've seen is, as we get closer and closer to the date, unfortunately, some people end up missing. The group fills up and they can't do it, and then they end up regretting that. So please head over the website. The link will be in the show notes and we would love to see you there.

Alan Lazaros:

I remember I had an ex-girlfriend. Every time I would be at the beach with her she'd feel so bad about herself. I remember thinking like that kind of sucks, I wish. No, I never, I don't think I ever, I don't think I ever saw that People get very insecure insecure when you're in great shape. Remember that guy who came to the? Kevin and I were at the same party a while back. His name was fenner.

Kevin Palmieri:

That dude was yeah, but I think it's mind. Everyone got insecure around that guy but he checked so many boxes. That's awesome. Well, yeah, but I don't check as many boxes. I'm telling you, if I was six foot five, it might be a different life, but I think it's okay. I think it's okay for me because I'm not a short yeah, because I'm not a giant. I don't know, I don't.

Alan Lazaros:

I don't think I ever. I remember I had a friend who was six four and he's huge and he said your intensity is a lot for people and and when you get as big like bigger because I was getting more big, because I was lanky before he said you're gonna have to dial some of that down. I understand now what he was saying and now we've done the intimidation factor and I realized what he was saying. And now we've done the intimidation factor. I realize what he was saying. But also, why are we all dialing down all the time?

Alan Lazaros:

Because if it feels bad to make people feel bad, it makes sense what I've come to realize, and this is it's so unfortunate, but it's true there's an upside to every downside. If you want to inspire like if I want to inspire you, if you and I were to go for a run together and again you don't care about running, but let's imagine you do it wouldn't even be fucking close.

Kevin Palmieri:

I mean, I could run backwards faster than you, probably with love and that would inspire the fuck out of you and motivate you to want to get better. If you valued running. If you valued running and you have a certain amount of belief, yeah, no, that's, you're missing it. No, it's not. It's not that simple I always am inspired.

Alan Lazaros:

When people are better.

Kevin Palmieri:

Yes, oh, because you have, you have really, you have very high belief.

Alan Lazaros:

But how else do you inspire?

Kevin Palmieri:

you can't inspire someone by being worse no, but you can inspire somebody by creating belief that they can do what you do I.

Alan Lazaros:

I went to yeah but what if that's not?

Kevin Palmieri:

true, you can never run.

Alan Lazaros:

My legs are twice the size of yours, right, but it's the same thing.

Kevin Palmieri:

What's going to get me to do, what's going to get me to practice it more? When I remember, I told the story where I went to. I went back to jujitsu. Yeah, when I remember I told the story where I went to I went back to jujitsu.

Alan Lazaros:

Yeah, and it's the first time I'd done it in a long, a long freaking time. No, no, this is different.

Kevin Palmieri:

Different. Oh okay, and I went I the same day I was doing my like introduction class, there was another guy there and he was. He was like, yeah, I kind of let myself go and I haven't been working out. I'm I'm curious to see if this will be helpful. And him and I partnered up in the first class and I literally just let him do everything and I didn't learn almost anything because I knew if he didn't get some sort of progress, he's not going to come back. But that holds you back. I'm okay with that, though.

Alan Lazaros:

Oh, that's so hard for me dude Back in the AP classes classes.

Alan Lazaros:

I remember it would be frustrating because in math if if someone was in the class that couldn't hang, they would hold back the rest of the class. That's fair, it's really. This is the meritocracy thing, and again, I don't want to come off as elitist, but we are talking about how to be top one percent. So in the context of next level university, it is what it is and and the truth of the matter is too everyone is good at certain things and not good at others, and that's totally fine. My relationship with that is very positive. I don't, I don't care if you're better than me at all. I almost want you to be. Then I'll be more motivated. Like I'm so excited that you're in better shape again, dude, I was so upset before. It's like fuck, am I going to have to do this alone? Like I'm so grateful that you're leading again. God damn it. I appreciate it. Of course, dude, you were the guy man. You were the guy.

Kevin Palmieri:

It's hard to be the guy. It's hard to be the guy. It's hard to be the guy when everything else is hard too.

Alan Lazaros:

And again, I think, for the listeners, what is the thing that you value and that you're good at it needs to be an and not an or, Because, yeah, you can value Kevin could value running but you're not going to change the world running. And I think that's really honest with self, because I don't want anyone to design their life around something that they're already at the bottom percentile of.

Kevin Palmieri:

Because we all know give me the three things. What are the three ways to find what you're best at number one? Anytime we do a how-to episode, I want to make sure we get that we actually do the tactics number one is you make other people insecure.

Alan Lazaros:

Now you have to notice it. People won't let you know they're insecure, especially adults, kids. When they're insecure especially adults, kids, when they're insecure, they'll either ego up or they'll go docile. You have to recognize that. I had an ex-girlfriend who was really beautiful and I remember when she was in a bathing suit all the girls around her would get so upset and it was so obvious. And then I heard one of them come behind me and say why the fuck does she always have to do that? And I remember thinking we're at the beach, like if she's not allowed to be in a bathing suit here, where is she supposed to? Not to mention she's the sweetest person. You kind of suck, to be honest, like that. That person was so mean, she, she, she's a teardown person, but anyways, um. Number one is you make other people insecure. You just do there. There is no way around that, but you have to notice it. Number two you feel like you don't understand why other people can't just do it.

Kevin Palmieri:

Like you with the syllable thing, easy mode.

Alan Lazaros:

Yeah, it's like what do you mean? You can't just rhyme. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel like that a lot with certain things. And then number three how do you know? I would say this third one's harder to identify. You come up the learning curve way faster. I would say this third one's harder to identify. You come up the learning curve way faster. Like what's a good example of this Snowboarding?

Alan Lazaros:

I remember I would snowboard with my friends and it would take them three times as long to get better and I didn't understand why I genuinely didn't. Now I've studied neuroscience, I've studied flow, I've studied peak performance, I've studied mastery, I've studied motivation. I've studied intrinsic and external. So now I know, oh, okay, I was stacking. Everything Like mastery is not important to other people. They're actually snowboarding for fun. I've never snowboarded for fun. I snowboarded to be the fucking best snowboarder I could be and I was inspired. My Mark's older brother, stefan, did this massive 360 off a rock through the woods in front of me and I was like, oh my God, you're my fucking hero. And ever since that moment I was like that's going to be me. Then I got a concussion and decided that was bad. That's fair. Those are the three, okay.

Kevin Palmieri:

I think those I agree with all those. Is there one I would try to add for a little? I would say that you, you're insecure about the fact that you might make people insecure. Yeah To that, just in case. I don't, because I never recognized people being insecure and I was never insecure about it.

Alan Lazaros:

That was probably a blind spot. I was insecure around you back in the day For sure, I never knew that. Are you kidding me when the day For sure? I never knew that when you took your shirt off. Are you kidding me when you were the genie? I never knew that I was a backstreet boy. I wasn't even that good of shape at that point you were in good shape compared to other. Hey, you're comparing to other high schoolers and college kids.

Kevin Palmieri:

Well, we were old enough to drink, weren't we?

Alan Lazaros:

No, no, I don't think so. We were. Hey, we were old enough to party.

Kevin Palmieri:

We weren't old enough to drink. I've been old enough to party since I was like 14, 15. Yeah, same, so you know whatever, but you were jacking that that was like a muscle shirt.

Alan Lazaros:

Well, there's a reason I chose it, baby, of course, but that you go where your.

Kevin Palmieri:

I was tall and lanky man.

Alan Lazaros:

That's fair, but I never knew that you were probably insecure about your height and or intelligence. I was insecure about right, and again, no one tells you that. That's why you have to notice.

Kevin Palmieri:

This is what I would say. This would be my thing. You always find a way to move in the direction of that thing. So my costume was reverse engineered so I didn't have to have a shirt on. I used to run a lot. I used to run the town loop all the time. I was allergic to shirts, couldn't wear them.

Kevin Palmieri:

I'm not wearing if I'm running I'm not wearing a shirt. I always, I've always been statistically better at fitness than the people around me. Just all my entire life, ever since I yeah, super, yeah, super athletic Always been athletic, that's always, and I've always been in pretty good shape, even when I'm not in shape, but I always found a way to make sure. I highlighted that as well. You know what's interesting.

Alan Lazaros:

Not always healthily either.

Kevin Palmieri:

Yeah.

Alan Lazaros:

I know we don't have time for this, we gotta jump. But you were self-conscious so you might not have noticed how insecure other people were.

Kevin Palmieri:

That's fair.

Alan Lazaros:

I'm certain people were insecure around you in fitness For sure, back in high school. For sure, absolutely, I would never. That's why they all said they're scared of you and all that kind of stuff. I would never fight you. That's them giving you clues. Hey Well, it's because I trained to fight. It's not the only reason you guys are out here swinging fists after last bell.

Kevin Palmieri:

I'm going to train with professionals. It makes sense, but I was afraid of them. It's all perception, man.

Alan Lazaros:

You guys are reckless.

Kevin Palmieri:

You're throwing punches outside in the parking lot. What are we doing here? That's reckless. I'm afraid of you guys. You guys are reckless For sure. Alright, what's your next level lesson before we get up?

Alan Lazaros:

My next level lesson is listeners. I didn't actually mean that I could beat Kevin running backwards although I do think that would be fun Look.

Kevin Palmieri:

Alan thinks he can throw a baseball further than me. We had a pretty serious debate where we were like we're going to throw $1,000 on this. I cannot imagine a world where it exists, but you never know I used to throw a jab. I cannot imagine a world where it exists, but you never know.

Alan Lazaros:

That's the thing.

Kevin Palmieri:

Long arms man, I know, but I I used to throw a jab. I played baseball for so long it's like. So that's a really good thing is would I be insecure if Alan threw it Probably for a minute, like I'd probably be insecure after Like shit, okay, didn't expect it to go, that little boy stuff but it's, yeah, it is, it's little, it's little boy stuff at that point.

Alan Lazaros:

So yeah, grown men doing little boy stuff. That'll be our next podcast. Yeah, I love it. My next level lesson is identify where you are naturally gifted. It's very important to do that. There are certain things that you can do better than other people because you are genetically inclined and that is a scientifically proven fact. It doesn't mean that not everyone can get better at everything. You can get better at anything. But where you start and what your natural inclination is. If you look up natural inclination, a lot will come up. Some people are born on a mountain and have a natural inclination for kinesiology. They're going to be professional snowboarders and or skiers and there's, there's just certain things that you naturally are great at that other people, quite frankly, aren't aren't. And if you find that and design your life and your future around it, you can, assuming it's profitable that's all another conversation. You can really.

Kevin Palmieri:

You can really crush it mine would be if you were to do something that you know you'd feel really good about yourself after you did. You're most likely really good at it and it feels good to be good at it, and I'm not saying to do this. But if you were going to try to make somebody else feel really bad, what would you do? That's most likely the thing that you're you're really good at. I remember there was a kid when I was younger who just pissed me right off, nice, and like he did some. I mean, this was I can't even explain it. It was so the the way this whole situation happened. It's a fucking movie.

Kevin Palmieri:

I wrote a song about him. I wrote a song about him because he also liked to rap a little bit too, and I was like brother, nice, it's not even going to be fucking close. Nice, I'm going to. I will literally embarrass you. That's a, that's a. See, I'm now. I'm not saying to do that, because that's all from a place of ego, but those are hints in the pattern, yeah, for sure. So if you ever, you ever do me wrong, you better know there's a song I'm gonna get a song right about me.

Alan Lazaros:

I probably I'm gonna be the rack taylor. Swift, I probably had one. No, I yeah. Sorry, he's a lawyer dressed in a suit. He doesn't know what's coming. He's getting the boot, nice strong work.

Kevin Palmieri:

Thanks, man, strong work. All right, cool um, next level nation a private group for amazing people like you who are into self-improvement, personal development and getting to the next level and the next level dreamliner. If you want to journal, you want to make it a habit, you want to make it sustainable, it literally takes all of five minutes a day. It's on amazon. We would love for you to get it if you feel so inclined. Cool, cool as always. We love you, we appreciate you, grateful for each and every one of you and at nlu, we don't have fans, we have family. We will talk to you all tomorrow keep it next level, next level nation thanks for joining us for another episode of Next Level University.

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