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title: 'You Get the Trait From the Shit'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=sWJPMqs3g-o'
video_id: 'sWJPMqs3g-o'
date: 2026-07-14
duration_sec: 0
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# You Get the Trait From the Shit

> Source: [You Get the Trait From the Shit](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sWJPMqs3g-o)

## Summary



## Transcript

If you're playing a video game and the the way to win the game was to be make the most successful character, right? You would have probably a really character-driven human being in terms of like they'd be patient, you know, they'd be hard working. They like you think about all these traits that they would have, right? They'd probably be tough emotionally like etc. How do you create someone who's patient? How do you create someone who's tough? If we had to then engineer the game in order to boost those points, we'd have to get them beat up a lot so that they could get tough. These people who become really successful have these traits and also share the fact that they've been through all this [ __ ] It's like, well, they got the trait from the [ __ ] and then the trait was the ultimate output of the experience and that trait then made them super successful that they didn't have earlier.