318. How To Be Awesome At Having A Succeed-Or-Die-Trying Attitude

How To Be Awesome At Everything

Lindsay Dickhout

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🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This podcast topic might seem a little extreme, but I honestly think it’s the difference between planners and doers. Between amateurs and pros.

It’s this attitude that I will succeed at this or I will die trying. Said differently - I won’t stop until it works.

Because everything takes a long time and it will eventually work if you try hard enough and do enough repetitions and fail enough and learn enough lessons.

Sometimes the original plan is what ends up working and sometimes you pivot 50 times and keep adjusting the plan until it’s the winning plan.

I think this way of approaching anything you want to accomplish makes it so much easier because it’s accepting that it will be hard and sometimes painstakingly hard.

But it’s removing the… if this works or it might

It’s like … I’m all in going pro at this. It’s what I really want and I’m giving it 110% effort. I will succeed or I will die trying.

-Success is inevitable if you refuse to quit. Most people fail because they stop. If you keep going, you win by default.

-It’s supposed to be hard—difficulty filters out those who can’t handle it. If it were easy, everyone would do it. The challenge is what makes success valuable.

-The only way to fail is to stop. As long as you’re moving forward, you haven’t lost. Keep adapting until you figure it out.

-Skills and results compound over time—most people quit before they see the returns. The people who succeed are the ones who endure long enough for compounding to take effect.

-Suffering is the price of greatness. You can either endure the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. One leads to success; the other leads to failure.

-Successful people do the work even when they don’t feel like it. Motivation is fleeting. Discipline and consistency win.

-Your mindset determines your outcome. If you truly believe you’ll succeed no matter what, your actions will reflect that belief, and success becomes inevitable.

-Obsession beats talent every time. The most successful people are those who refuse to stop, not -There’s always a way—your job is to find it. If one path doesn’t work, try another. Resourcefulness is more important than resources.

-The greatest competitive advantage is enduring longer than everyone else. Most people give up when it gets tough. If you don’t, you’ll be the last one standing—and that’s who wins.

CHEERS to charging towards your goals with this succeed or die trying mindset!

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0:00.0	How to be awesome at having a succeed or die trying attitude. This topic might seem a little extreme,
0:06.4	but I honestly think it's a difference between planners and doers, between amateurs and pros.
0:11.6	It's this attitude that I will succeed at this or I will die trying. Said differently,
0:17.1	I won't stop until it works. Because everything takes a long time and it will eventually work
0:22.8	if you try hard enough and do enough repetitions and fail enough and learn enough lessons.
0:28.3	Sometimes the original plan is what ends up working and sometimes you have to pivot 50 times
0:33.0	and keep adjusting the plan until it's the winning plan.
0:36.9	I think this way of approaching
0:38.5	anything you want to accomplish makes it so much easier because it's accepting that it will
0:44.4	be hard and sometimes painstakingly hard, but it's removing the if this works or it might.
0:51.9	It's like I'm all in. I'm going pro at this. It's what I really want and I'm giving
0:58.7	110% effort. I will succeed or I will die trying. Let's go. You're listening to the How to
1:05.5	Be Awesome at Everything podcast where we're obsessed with life hacks that make your life more awesome.
1:12.4	Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business owner, a mom and wife,
1:17.4	and someone who wants to do things over the top at all times.
1:21.2	This concept started as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting
1:25.6	to get to her kids one day. And now it's a podcast.
1:28.8	Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome at everything we do. Here's Lindsay.
1:37.2	Lately, I've been so obsessed with a couple concepts. One, it's supposed to be hard. And when something's hard, that doesn't
1:47.1	mean you quit or take a break or reanalyze. It's like, this is supposed to be hard. Anything
1:54.0	exceptional is going to be hard. If it were easy, everybody would have it, right? Everybody would
2:00.6	run a marathon, write a book,
	...

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