872: Winners
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Okay. So here's something I learned about myself this last week. Today's show we're doing a show about winners. And as we talked about this idea here at the radio show, I learned that there is something I apparently say all the time here at our office as we make the show. And I really had no idea. I said this at all until a few months ago when somebody on staff pointed this out and back when that happened, I felt like, sure, yes, I guess I have said that every now and then over the years. But this week I learned I had that wrong. Yeah, you say it all the time. I am joined in the studio now by my coworker, Diane will hit a day. Hi, I love it. It's something that I have noticed, but I didn't talk about it with my coworkers until this week. And when I went to them and taped those conversations, everybody knew what I was talking about. Whenever you feel like you're trying to work on a story and you're in your low point, he kind of gives you this look. And he's like, no, you're a winner. You know, you're not like how in Harry Potter, they're just like you're a wizard, Ari. That's what he kind of does with winners. The thing I always says is, let's win. We're winners. We're winners. We can do this. I think when I first started working here, like as like an intern, basically, I can't remember what it was, but I told him like, I don't think I can do that. And he's like, that's a loser mentality. We're winners. And then I remember thinking like, oh, no, I am a winner. I like to win things. He spoke to something that worked on me. I can't believe anyone actually feels that way. That's so great for them. It's like a moment when you look around a table and you can see on everybody's faces that they're a little bit that they're tired and they're not feeling like things are going to work out. And then I will come in with we got this. This is going to be great. This is going to be so easy. This is going to just be so easy. We know what we have to do. We're winners. We just have to do it. Let's win. Let's win. I say that is so weird here. Everybody talking about that. Because I think I just was saying this without thinking, you know, I think that's why I didn't realize I was saying it and how often I was saying it. Like, it's not this deeply calculated. I must motivate the troops thing. It just, it's some part of me just chemically is just feels like, come on, let's go. We're winners. Let's go. Thank you. And some people find this really motivating when you do it. But others, when you're saying this stuff about winners, it does, it just does nothing for them. They just don't get it. Wait, really? Yeah, they're like, why does he keep doing this? What is he talking about? It's terrible. It doesn't do anything but make me angry. This, of course, is there co-worker Nadia? It made me I roll and it made me completely be like, I'm not, I don't want to do this. The winner thing also doesn't work for a co-worker Lilly. The first times I would hear it, it was like a tell to me. I'm like, Oh, shoot, I'm not going to fit here at all. This guy thinks he's a winner. All these people that I don't know very well yet are also apparently winners. Apparently they hire for winners. And that's, that's certainly not me. Because I think of winners, people who think of themselves as winners. I'm like, you guys are just a bunch of like, try hard narks. You know, and I'm like, not about winning. Like, I'm very much like, identify as a loser. I am kind of loser. I'm a quitter. Can I just stop the tape? That is such a funny thing to hear somebody say out loud. I used to play sports, like kind of competitively, which I think would surprise everyone who knows me. Like, I don't seem like someone who would play sports and like, how competitive, like, how intensely were you playing sports? Okay, well, my team in high school, one state in California, my soccer team, which was like a huge deal, a huge deal. It's a huge state. It's a huge state. Um, and then I played soccer in college too. And then one time when I was, I guess it was like the first season of um, soccer in college. And we had to do like a mental, some kind of a test, like test how we were mentally some assessment. This was like some kind of personality test to see how mentally tough and competitive you are. And my coach pulled me aside afterward. And he was just like, just so you know, like everyone on the team, other than you was like upper
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