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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

33: Why You Can't

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5610 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

All right, we're rolling.

0:09.4

We're rolling now?

0:10.3

Yeah.

0:11.0

Rolling, rolling, rolling.

0:12.9

All right, this is a little impromptu seeking wisdom.

0:15.2

That's it.

0:16.6

And you just called it, you called it why you can't.

0:19.4

Why you can't.

0:20.3

Okay, tell me.

0:21.2

Otherwise known as why it's so hard.

0:23.4

Okay.

0:24.2

So we're known, we're kind of infamous now about talking about why things are so hard.

0:29.7

Yeah.

0:30.1

That things are hard.

0:31.6

Yeah.

0:31.7

And I think a common thing that I see is that when people, people know it's hard, right?

0:38.2

But they think that the hard part is that they don't know something when you say it it could

0:44.4

be anything it could be starting a company starting a new project starting a

0:47.6

workout starting a diet starting whatever you nailed it so it could be any

0:51.8

anything that you're trying to achieve right And they think that the hard part of the missing gap is the knowledge. And that might be true, but it's usually you know what to do, right? Whether it's losing weight, whether it's going into business, whether it's starting a new project, whether it's writing or painting. Or you might not know what to do, but you know, you're thinking about it for a reason. You want to get to the, you know, you know what the end result is going to be, whether it's being more healthy, losing weight, getting 10,000 new people to your website, whatever the goal is, right? Exactly. And we often talk about how hard it is. and, you know, the reason that I, that I think it's hard is not typically because of the knowledge, especially in today's world where you can find anything you need in a snap of a finger.

1:37.7

You can, you know, you know all the answers. You don't know how to do it.

1:41.1

Exactly. You know, or at least you know how to find out the answers.

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