The golden window between ages 6 and 16 is when hyper-specialization happens — if you find something to obsess over during that decade, you can become world-class.

17:21time during that a golden window. And and when I interviewed Monish Pabrai, he was I was asking about these books on the wall. He had a whole section on like science and neuro neuroscience and psychology. And I go, "What's something you really took away from reading a bunch of these?" And he goes, "We have a certain hardwiring that's kind of baked by the time you're six or seven. Like your your core

17:43nature, your DNA. You kind of know who that person is." But he goes, "And there's a golden window. And I think the golden window was something like, you know, six to 16 years old. And during that 10-year window, if you found something that's that you can obsess over and you can um you get free rein to actually obsess over it during that window, you will hyper-specialize when the brain is in

18:08this certain period and you'll become world-class. Like you're you're the rest of your life happens and if you really don't And so he talks about this with investing. He's like, "I don't invest in companies where the CEO doesn't have an evidence of the lemonade stand when they were 10 or 11 because if you really If you're an entrepreneur, you were an entrepreneur at an early stage." Now, I

18:25don't 100% believe this, but I did think it's interesting and you do see this pattern a lot where >> have that? Did Monish have that? >> Uh yeah, so he I asked him that and he was like He's like, "Yes." And he goes, "It wasn't for entrepreneurship. It was basically for like his dad had a jewelry business or a gold business or something like that." He said, "Like basically my MBA was every