Several years ago one of my podcast guests died tragically at the age of 56.

 
I'm speaking of David Longdon, lead vocalist for a little-known but outstanding band called Big Big Train.

When Genesis was searching for a vocalist after the departure of Phil Collins, the decision came down to David, or another guy.

The other guy got it.
 
That David's band is so little known is one of the great outrages of the modern world.

I remember exactly where I was when I heard David had died: in the store portion of a Cracker Barrel. From that spot I called my wonderful friend Brad Birzer (professor of history at Hillsdale College), who had interviewed David with me on the Tom Woods Show, to discuss this terrible tragedy.
 
At any rate, in that interview I asked the great David Longdon (who had to work at a convenience store to make ends meet, because music didn't generate enough income for -- in my opinion -- the single best vocalist in the business):
 
You are making some of the best music I have ever heard. Yet most people listen to mediocre three-minute crap on the radio. Does that ever bother you?
 
His immediate answer: "No, because there's nothing I can do about it.... I don't feel like I'm owed a living, by any particular right or claim on it."
 
Wow.
 
Somehow he was more at peace with the situation than I was!

I could riff on his brilliant answer all day, but for now a short lesson:
 
People who do think they're owed a living make lousy entrepreneurs.
 
Instead of grabbing opportunities, they sit around waiting for things to happen to them, for things to be given to them. It's poison.
 
Meanwhile, people with ambition pass them by.

Nuts to that.

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