15: Do You Really Want Success?

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2016

⏱️ 11 minutes

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If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- We snuck out another episode before heading into the weekend. Are you sure you really want success? Are you ready for what it takes? Most people aren't. Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes: bit.ly/SW-Podcast Here's a link to the book we mentioned on this episode: https://www.amazon.com/Shoe-Dog-Memoir-Creator-Nike-ebook/dp/B0176M1A44?ie=UTF8&btkr=1&ref_=dp-kindle-redirect

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0:00.0	It's a Friday.
0:09.6	We're doing the impromptu seeking wisdom.
0:11.7	So I can't even tee this up.
0:13.0	What's the intro?
0:14.1	What's this called?
0:15.1	Yeah.
0:15.4	This is called Do You Really Want Success?
0:28.4	Yeah. really want success. Like what does that mean?
0:29.1	Like everybody else, everybody wants to be successful because like it's not cool to
0:32.9	not be successful.
0:34.4	Correct.
0:35.1	But they don't want to put in the work to actually be successful. Exactly. They don't want to put in what it takes for it to be successful. Correct. But they don't want to put in the work to actually be successful.
0:37.7	Exactly.
0:38.3	They don't want to put in what it takes for it to be successful.
0:41.0	Last week I gave a talk where I started the talk by giving this parable, which I can give now.
0:48.9	Yeah, go.
0:49.8	And the parable, if you've read, this is an age-old story, right?
0:56.8	And we use parables to teach important lessons. And this story goes all the way back to Socrates and Plato. But I'm
1:03.4	going to give you the modern day adaption. So the modern day adaption is there's this young
1:09.7	gun, hungry, who wants success wants success right and he goes to this guy
1:15.3	and this guy is the most successful person he knows this is the guru he goes to and he says hey
1:22.9	successful guy i want to be as successful as you and the guru says you sure you want to be as successful as you. And the guru says, you sure you want to be as successful as I am?
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