Back when I was a car mechanic, one day I thought, "Today, I'm gonna shoot for the moon. I'm just gonna go for it!" Some guy came in and had an issue with his radiator. I told him, "Alright. I can fix your radiator. It'll take half an hour and cost $400,000." And he replied, "Well, that's too much. I'm gonna go to a mechanic who charges less." So, I didn't get the $400,000. But at least I went for it. I went for it in life. I had ambition. Moxie. Enthusiasm.
Shooting for the moon. It's an important ingredient. You gotta go for it sometimes--and that's precisely what I did that day. I'm very satisfied with the fact that I shot for the moon. Although I suppose the specific way I went about the whole thing might not have been particularly great. There are different ways to go for it. My approach might have needed some sort of modification--for instance, I could've talked for a few minutes about radiators, and then followed that up with the whole thing about $400,000. So, my approach was a little bit off. Nevertheless, I really went for it, and I can really hang my hat on that fact.
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