8 Tips For Killing Weakness (From Someone Who Learned The Hard Way)

BigDeal

Codie Sanchez

Marketing, Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Most people think weakness is beaten with motivation. It’s not. Weakness is eliminated with standards. After years on Wall Street and building businesses, I learned the hard way that comfort kills more dreams than failure ever will. The people who break through don’t feel their way forward. They enforce rules on themselves. In this raw episode, I break down eight brutal truths most people need to hear. Why motivation doesn’t kill weakness but standards do. Why your inner circle will either save or sabotage your life. Why confidence comes after action, not before. And why setting goals you never fully reach is one of the most unfair advantages in life. You’ll also learn why elite performance requires being a little unhinged, why you get paid to practice not perform, and why winners aren’t special, they’re obsessed with proving themselves. This isn’t theory. It’s applied psychology backed by real research and hard lessons. From self-control predicting success more than IQ to social circles shaping outcomes, this episode will change how you think about discipline, standards, and what it actually takes to kill weakness for good. Building real wealth doesn't require a flashy startup — it just takes one boring, cash-flowing business. Join me at Main Street Millionaire Live to get my exact playbook for finding, buying, and scaling a business. Stop wondering how ownership could change your life, and come find out: https://contrarianthinking.biz/MSML_BDYT26 ___________ 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:45 How to Kill Weakness: Starve It 00:04:32 Your Inner Circle Will Ruin or Save Your Life 00:06:55 Work Ethic Eliminates Fear 00:09:31 Set Goals You Never Reach: The Unfair Unlock 00:11:39 Stop Normalizing Comfort 00:13:43 Elite Requires Unhinged 00:15:58 You Get Paid to Practice, Not Play the Game 00:17:44 Stop Pitying Weakness, Including Your Own 00:21:14 You Don't Need Confidence: Just Keep Trying ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Weakness haunts us all.
0:31.4	You won't admit it.
0:32.2	Not everybody will admit it.
0:33.6	You won't say the truth.
0:34.9	You want to be great.
0:37.0	And there's a reason that movie where you could take a pill and suddenly every discipline and idea that came out of your head was life-changing was a bestseller. Because if you could bottle that and give it to any man or woman, you would take it. So today, we're going to figure out how to give you that pill, how to turn you into what Bruce Springsteen said.
0:55.5	I'm not afraid you're better than me. I'm afraid I won't reach my potential. That's not fear of
1:00.4	failure. That's fear of a life half lived, a tombstone that tragically reads dots, an obituary that
1:07.4	looks like a half-finished manuscript. That will be most people's lives. But it doesn't need to be
1:11.8	yours. So today we're going to kill that part inside of you. Welcome back to the Big Deal podcast. I'm
1:20.0	Cody Sanchez. And I've spent the last decade negotiating deals, firing people being fired,
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