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Work On Your Game: Discipline, Structure, and Execution Under Pressure

#3248: Be Smart Enough To Take "No" For An Answer

Work On Your Game: Discipline, Structure, and Execution Under Pressure

Dre Baldwin

Business

4.9 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Some say never take no for an answer—but that’s not always smart. At the mall with my son, a guy tried to recruit me for something. I ignored him, but he kept pushing. Two weeks later, he approached me again. He didn’t get it. In business and life, knowing when to walk away matters just as much as persistence. Show Notes: [12:10]#1 Your time is limited.  [17:30]#2 Dignity and Respect [25:03]#3 Persistence and tenacity are indeed virtues in the sales world.  [30:20]Recap Next Steps: Text Dre Baldwin: Text Dre at 1.305.384.6894 (or go to http://www.DreAllDay.com/Text) Work On Your Game University: http://www.WorkOnYourGameUniversity.com  Sponsor: AG1 by Athletic Greens: http://drinkAG1.com/WORKONYOURGAME  Get Dre’s Emails FREE:  Http://WorkOnMyGame.com  Free Audiobooks:  The Third Day: http://www.ThirdDayBook.com/audible The Mirror Of Motivation: http://www.MirrorOfMotivation.com/audible Get The Free Books: The Third Day: http://ThirdDayBook.com  The Mirror Of Motivation: http://MirrorOfMotivation.com The Overseas Basketball Blueprint: http://BallOverseas.com  Basketball: How To Play As Well As You Practice: http://HoopHandbook.com/Free  Donate:  CashApp: http://Cash.app/$DreBaldwin  PayPal: http://PayPal.me/DreAllDay  Be sure to Subscribe to have each new episode sent directly to you daily! If you're enjoying Work On Your Game, please Review the show and let us know!  Dre on social media: Instagram [http://instagram.com/DreBaldwin] Facebook [http://Facebook.com/WorkOnYourGameUniversity] Twitter / X [http://X.com/DreAllDay] YouTube [http://youtube.com/dreupt]  Facebook Business Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/6figuresandgrowing/  All Episodes + FULL Work On Your Game Podcast archive at:  http://WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com

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And at the same time, even if you convince someone, we all know the same.

0:03.3

A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. You still are not gaining anything.

0:08.3

And you're using your time.

0:13.4

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0:13.5

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0:15.0

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0:16.3

I like the approach.

0:17.7

Work on your fucking games.

0:19.1

Everybody has, relates to what Gray is saying is in a different way. Work on your game. I like the way he thinks. Work on your fucking game. I like the frameworks that he's put together. Work on your game. And I would highly recommend it to anybody that's trying to work on their game. Work on your fucking game. I think it's a good approach. It's a different approach, too. Hey, you, work on your game. Gave me something really good. Work on you gain, dry old day.com. And his philosophy makes a lot sense. Not only work on your game, perfect your craft. Work on your game. He knows how to communicate in such a fabulous way. I can't say it enough. Work on your game. You're now tuned into the show where you learned the discipline to show up day after day to do the work, the confidence to put yourself out there, boldly, and authentically, and the mental tough is to continue showing up doing the work, putting yourself out there, even when the success you've expected to achieve has yet to be achieved. And on top of all this, you get a huge those personal initiative that is the go-getter energy that moves any one of us, including yourself, to go and make things happen instead of waiting for things to happen. And then we put all this together into a series of frameworks, approaches, insight, strategies, and techniques all underneath the umbrella of one unifying philosophy

1:27.9

that is called, work on your game. My name is Drey Baldwin, also known as Dre All Day, and welcome

1:33.6

to the show. And today's topic is, be smart enough to take no for an answer. Some of you have

1:41.0

been incorrectly taught that you should not take no for an answer and that

1:45.7

persistence is a virtue and in some ways these things can be true but in many ways they are not true

1:51.1

and many of you have been incorrectly falsely misled into believing that you should apply this

1:57.3

in a blanket way to every situation and circumstance in life. This is absolutely false.

2:03.1

So I talked about this when to take no for an answer back in episode number 1444. I'm going

2:10.6

to revisit this. I'm going to add some other points to it and some other context here today because

2:14.8

there is more that needs to be said on this subject, specifically

2:17.6

because of a recent experience that actually happened with me, with a person who clearly does not understand this concept. So basically, I'm taking what I would explain to that person. If I could sit down and talk to them for 20 and 30 minutes, which I'm not going to do, I'm going to sit here and explain it to all of you because there are other people who need to hear this the same way that this person needs to hear it that I'm referencing here. So let me tell you this story. So I went to a mall that has a play area and had my son, two-year-old son with me taking him to the play area of the mall. This is on a weekday, like late afternoon, early evening. So it was pretty quiet in the mall. And some bro, this white guy,

2:51.5

walks up to me and he attempts to offer me a handshake. I do not shake his hand. I'm walking with

2:56.2

my child, first of all. So let's start here. If you're a man and you see another man walking

3:00.2

with his children, do not approach that man. Don't just leave him alone because he's with his kids.

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