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The Evolution of Hustle: From Opportunity to Tenacity


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When I used the word "hustle" in 2008, 9, 10, the intent is like, "Hey, there's opportunity and you can go get it." I'm thrilled to change that word to tenacity or grit or work ethic. I'm incredibly self-aware that the way I communicate with the excitement level, with the energy, with the Jersey chat of it, I'm very genuinely compassionate and understanding to why people may take the extreme take.

And I also don't have the audacity. I deploy enormous humility when I'm about to say what I'm saying. I would never expect someone to spend five hours to double-click into it and actually understand what I'm about and what I'm saying. I guess at the end of the day, what are they missing?

They're not missing anything if they're just doing a drive-by and reading a headline. If they've spent two or three hours on me through content or interaction or people that really know me, I doubt they'd be missing anything because I think they would