Here's an Ace of Spades for your week...

We're in Sturgis this week and after watching our boy Bryant clean some fellers clock at Bare Knuckle FIghting Championships, we watched Megadeath shred, and we couldn't help but think of this story.

In Dave Mustaine's early years as a musician, he co-founded a metal band. After some time, it was clear he didn't always get along with the other members and before recording their first album, they kicked him out.

So, Mustaine started another band. His new band, Megadeth, became one of the most successful heavy metal groups in history. They sold 50 million records worldwide, earned twelve Grammy nominations, won Best Metal Performance for the song "Dystopia" in 2017, and boosted Mustaine's net worth to around $20 million.

Instead of being happy with his massive success and riches with Megadeth, Mustaine spent the last 30 years feeling inadequate, resentful, and continues to be publicly upset about being kicked out of his first band.

His first band was Metallica.

Let's play a little game... Every example you can think of equals one point. Which question wins:

1. How many times has comparing yourself, your value, or your outcome to someone else's made you feel upset?

2. How many times has comparing yourself, your value, or your outcome to someone else's has made your life better?

Say it with us... "It's ok to be happy"


-GFDD

PS. There's a nearly identical story about Pete Best, the original dummer for The Beatles who was replaced just as they were hitting it big. How does Pete feel about it? Here's a quote from the article The Happiest Beatle, "What's the point in saying, 'I should have been this', or 'I could have been that?' That's yesterday."