Busting The Myth About 'Fast Success'
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
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🗓️ 5 November 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One of my favorite myths of entrepreneurship is the overnight success. |
| 0:05.8 | There is no such thing as an overnight success. |
| 0:09.2 | An overnight success on average takes about 17 and a half years. |
| 0:15.0 | This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook, |
| 0:17.0 | where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, |
| 0:21.0 | and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and |
| 0:24.1 | professional playbook to success. There's three valuable lessons that I'm |
| 0:29.2 | going to teach you about the myth of overnight success. The first one is to detach your emotions from an outcome. |
| 0:39.2 | Too many people slow down the process of the overnight success by saying, |
| 0:45.0 | I will be happy when. |
| 0:47.0 | If you're going to be happy, quote unquote, when, |
| 0:51.0 | you're never going to be happy. |
| 0:52.0 | You need to attach your emotions to the |
| 0:56.4 | process, to the enjoyment of the process. In order to do so there's three things that you control. |
| 1:05.0 | One is your emotions. |
| 1:06.6 | We control our hearts, our feelings. |
| 1:10.2 | Two is our mindset. we control our thoughts, and three, our actions, our handset. |
| 1:18.8 | You see, you are a bag of beliefs, and those beliefs are what we have to control because the beliefs that we have are the control of |
| 1:28.1 | our feelings, of our thoughts, and of everything that we do and say. |
| 1:33.5 | And the moral line that we have our heart set, |
| 1:36.7 | our mindset, our mindset, our handset, |
| 1:38.1 | where we think we want to be without attaching |
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