#17: Three Temptations of Highly Successful People!
The Game Changer Life
Dave Anderson
4.9 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Many organizations, and people for that matter, fail to sustain their success because of complacency. All too often, someone who becomes good eventually starts to: stay in their comfort zone, stop risking or changing, stop following the processes that made them successful, and more. In this episode, Dave shares three key temptations that successful people are prone to fall into. Whether you're already successful, or just starting out, use this episode to identify and avoid these key temptations that can hinder your progress towards becoming unstoppable.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the game change your life. I'm Dave Anderson. Can you survive success? Can you survive success? |
| 0:21.6 | Jim Collins wrote in this book, Good to Great, The Enemy of Great is Good, all right, |
| 0:27.4 | that the reason so few organizations become great is because they get good at what they do |
| 0:32.6 | and they stop changing, stop risking, kind of getting their comfort zone. |
| 0:36.1 | But I think that also applies to people, that the reason so few people or performers ever really |
| 0:41.8 | become great or great, you know, become the best at what they do is because they get good at |
| 0:46.2 | what they do. |
| 0:47.0 | And they get comfortable. |
| 0:47.8 | They get complacent. |
| 0:48.7 | They stop learning. |
| 0:49.8 | They stop thinking big. |
| 0:51.3 | They get away from the process that got them there. |
| 0:53.4 | So what a great time |
| 0:54.6 | to look in the mirror and talk about three temptations of successful people. How to identify and |
| 1:01.5 | overcome three key temptations of successful people. Because this applies to everybody. I don't |
| 1:06.5 | care what you're doing. If you're already successful to some degree, this applies to you. |
| 1:10.6 | If you're not and you're striving to be, someday you will be. You need're already successful to some degree, this applies to you. If you're not |
| 1:11.3 | and you're striving to be, someday you will be. You need to be aware of these now. Okay, so you're not |
| 1:16.1 | ambushed once you get successful. And I know the number one temptation, speaking of temptations, |
| 1:21.6 | is to think of somebody else when I'm going through here, but that might be helpful later, |
| 1:26.5 | but let's fix ourselves first. |
| 1:28.1 | Let's look in the mirror as I go over these three because they're very common. |
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