Tom White was diagnosed with Tourette's at the age of 9, Tom learned to face adversity and embrace the curse and the gift. Tom is the author of a newsletter called White Noise. He runs a writing consultancy and is also an angel investor.Tom is a deep thinker and a man of many quotes—from CS Lewis to Jim Carey, E.L. Doctorow, E.O. Wilson, J. R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Richard Feynman, and many more.We talked aboutWhy life is more like golf than tennisGoodhart’s Law: “If a metric becomes the measure, it ceases to be a good metric”How incentives run the worldhow everything is an experiment, a curse, and a blessingthe lasting impact of his grandfather, a veteran of D-Day and World War IIhow growth and comfort cannot coexisthow happiness is a byproduct, not something you aim forYou may or may not agree with everything Tom shares, but I bet you will walk away more aware of the gifts you have been bestowed and more peaceful about wherever you’re in life.I’ll leave you with a quote from Tom’s grandfather: “Run hard, and shoot from the top.”Enjoy the episode.

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