1252 | Darren Hardy: “Success is Earned through Hard Friggin’ Work.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Darren Hardy, author of The Compound Effect, kicks off the week with a reality check about what it REALLY takes to become successful. Angered by quick-fix personal development programs and their outrageous claims and false promises, Darren dishes the real “secret” to having success.
If you want to become successful, you must commit to the FACT that it will require hard work. You will have to hustle. And you’ll have to do it one step, one day, one meeting, and one phone call at a time. If anyone tells you otherwise, run!
Source: Darren Hardy - The Secret (Hard Friggin' Work!)
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| 0:00.0 | Yo today's QOD is |
| 0:02.7 | Success is earned through hard friggin work |
| 0:06.7 | Here we go |
| 0:30.7 | Welcome back to the quarter the day show I'm your host shine cracks in a shine cracks in calm |
| 0:38.3 | It's motivation Monday. We've got Darren Hardy author of the compound effect on the show today and today |
| 0:45.7 | Darren is gonna keep it very real with you because |
| 0:51.2 | there is a |
| 0:53.2 | Hmm a misconception around how to become successful and |
| 0:58.0 | And there's a lot of people out there talking about hey just follow the law of attraction |
| 1:02.6 | Just do what they said in the secret and as much as I love the secret like |
| 1:08.0 | There was concepts that I I love from it and I I use them |
| 1:11.8 | But there are also things that were left out and one of those things is work |
| 1:18.1 | Like you got to work. There's no way around it. You know, there's this whole kind of segment of the internet that's like |
| 1:24.6 | You know anti-hustle culture like you shouldn't have to hustle. It's gonna be all ease and flow |
| 1:31.0 | You just think about it and you just it just kind of all comes into your life like that's that's not how it works |
| 1:37.1 | And the people who are promoting this type of thinking are people who are working their tails off |
| 1:43.5 | It's kind of wild. I really don't get it. I think it's just a really good sales pitch like you can become successful without really working |
| 1:49.1 | No, that's that's just not it |
| 1:51.1 | We're trying to avoid the work. We can't avoid the work. The work is is part of it |
| 1:57.7 | It's imperative you have to put in the work |
| 1:59.7 | You're gonna have to hustle not only you have to hustle all the time where you lose your health and you lose your family |
| 2:05.6 | You become a workaholic. No, that's not what I mean |
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