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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

#154: Double Down on What's Working

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5610 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

As an eternal optimist, DC believes in the power of ideas. Which is one reason he’s always jumping to that next ‘shiny object’. In this week’s episode, DC and Adam talk about how to avoid shiny object syndrome (spoiler alert, you’ve got to sleep on it) and instead double down on what’s working. Plus, DC shares what he’s doubling down on right now. Like this episode? Be sure to leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review and share the pod with your friends. You can connect with DC and his co-host, Adam Schoenfeld, on Twitter @dcancel @schoeny @HYPERGROWTH_Pod

Transcript

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0:00.0

So we're back.

0:07.0

Here we're going to talk about one of the lessons that I keep failing to really learn.

0:14.0

I know it and I try to implement it and I often fail.

0:18.2

And that lesson is about doubling down on what's working and not getting distracted until it stops working.

0:27.5

That's a simple thing, but it's a very, very, very, very difficult thing to pull off.

0:33.0

So let's just go right into the pain of that.

0:35.7

What's a time when you lost sight of this?

0:37.9

And what was the impact of that?

0:40.1

Every day adrift.

0:42.2

Yesterday, today, tomorrow.

0:45.5

Every single day.

0:46.7

And Adam and I worked together, so he knows this.

0:49.6

I'm constantly someone who is chasing the next shiny object and thinking about, you know, I'm an internal

0:57.3

optimist, I should say, and I always think that the next great, awesome thing is just around the

1:03.6

corner and I believe in the power of ideas and the power of like manifesting those ideas.

1:08.3

And I have no shortage of ideas and you have no

1:11.3

shortage of ideas and all the people around us have no shortage of them. And so we're constantly

1:15.1

being bombarded by ideas and they always sound better and sound more compelling and easier

1:20.8

than to continue doing what we know has worked. And often we go off chasing those new ideas

1:26.6

and forgetting the things that God is here

1:29.0

and that it continue to work and have a time tested. And those things often suffer because of it.

1:34.1

That O'S shiny syndrome. My grandpa has a thing about this that he always said. He said in business

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