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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

#122: Comfort Is The Enemy Of Growth

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5610 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Today on Seeking Wisdom we're talking about the relationship between comfort and growth. -- Get something out of this episode? Leave a 6-star review on Apple Podcasts. If you're a fan of the show we would LOVE you to join us at HYPERGROWTH -- our annual conference at Drift. Tuesday 9/4 in Boston and Monday 9/24 in SF. You can get your tickets at hypergrowth.drift.com with the promo code SEEKINGWISDOM for just $199 -- and that is the lowest price on the Internet just for SW fans.

Transcript

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0:00.0

And we're back.

0:10.0

This is David Cancel, and you're listening to the Seeking Wisdom podcast.

0:16.1

Over here, listen that music.

0:18.1

Listen, nod your head.

0:19.6

Over here in front of me is the young nephew, D.G. A.k.a. Dave Gerhardt. He just got a beating. It's good for him. A. Beding. Nothing he could say would make me happier.

0:34.7

So sorry if I'm low energy for one second. I just got a beating. I walked out of an hour long beating. It wasn't from D.C. Not me. My hands. My hands are clean. It wasn't from out. So anyway, we're back. I'm excited. This is the official, official, official, official last podcast in this, in this office. The room is feeling real empty. Yeah yeah if you hear an echo if you hear us echoing

0:55.9

it's because all the shelves are now empty everything's packed in boxes we have no lights we have nothing

1:00.6

today this is just like this is like two years ago seeking wisdom this is OG seeking wisdom this is when

1:05.6

there was no listening okay this is for the old yeah the old gangster listeners who are listening right now.

1:11.6

We're taking it back. Yeah. So you know what? I actually, I wanted to just do one where I didn't have any prep notes with you, but I just thought of the topic. What? Yeah, yeah. Because I thought of the topic, which is actually, I just got a beating. Yes. Okay. Who gave you that beating? Mike Volpey. Okay. Shout out to you, Mike.

1:09.1

Love you, still love you.

1:10.5

He's in you, Mike.

1:28.3

Love you, still love you.

1:30.3

The guy, he's in shock, Mike.

1:32.3

Yeah, no.

1:33.3

It was nice.

1:34.3

It was a good beating, but you have this mindset, right?

1:38.3

And I think you've started to retrain my mindset a little bit where I used to get would would be defensive right you're in those

1:45.2

meetings taking a beating from somebody and you get defensive how does growth feel man

1:49.4

exactly so this is what I want to talk about I want to talk about we can call this like how

1:53.5

growth really feels right it's how I wish I could take a picture of DG's face right now

1:58.8

I was like a ghost but I want to accelerate seeking wisdom.

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