eventually succeed at almost every time. You know because they're not such big challenges that you can't do it. So by the time I got my big break to become a cartoonist I thought it would work. By the time I wrote my first book, my first book that wasn't just comics, I said this will be a bestselling book, number one bestseller book. I hadn't even taken a writing class except one two-day class in business writing and it became a number one book.

Now I have a level of, I'm sure you've witnessed it, I have a level of confidence that's unnatural because it is unnatural. It's a learned preferred mindset that I've developed over time but it's not based on reality. You know if I take a moment to say well in reality you could definitely be stopped. But I just don't live my life like I can be stopped. I just assume if I see something that's wrong with the entire country like fentanyl or anything else I say to myself I could probably put a dent in that. You know I might be able to change the narrative on that. I just don't think anything can stop me. And that's how you get rid of your anxiety. I just figure always a way out and so far so good.

All right, so if you can figure out how to get your kids to do something useful in today's world it would be really good for them just so they can succeed over and over again. Oh yeah, you always say the rules don't apply to you. I say that all the time. That's one of my favorite sayings. Well I say the odds don't apply to me. Yes you're saying the rules don't apply but I think you're saying the odds and maybe that's a little more expansive than what I'm saying. So if I embark on something where it's unlikely people would ever succeed at it I just don't think it applies. I just think it's up to me and I just live my life that way.

All right, you were, yeah if you, I also worked in a lab you know an engineering sort of lab and the phone company and we had unlimited daily problems that we had to solve. You know why something wasn't working. Pretty much we always did. I don't think there was ever a case where we just said ah just give up. We always figured it out somehow.

All right, is there any story that I missed before I sign off? Yeah, Carrie said some things about the Ukraine war. Jobs build confidence too. Yeah it's always good to change jobs. So I've changed jobs. Let's see in the comments how many times, you tell me how many times you've changed jobs so far. And that just as an adult I probably had 20 different jobs as a teenager but as an adult I've changed jobs. Now I also changed jobs within companies so I'm going to count all of that. Change jobs maybe 15 times if you count adding jobs. Maybe 12 to 15 times. And every time you change jobs and you know you get up to speed in the new job there's your confidence. Yeah if you include within the company. Yeah. And a lot of you are having numbers from, six is a very common number. A whole bunch of you have six. That's very common for some reason. You've been