People want to have problems because it gives them a reason to suck and it be okay.

It gives them ego padding so they can protect themselves for the reason why they're not successful,

for the reason they haven't accomplished what they said they were going to accomplish and so they lean on their potential comma and their trauma as the two

reasons that people prop up I've got lots of potential but I have all this trauma

and neither of those matter. Welcome to the game where we talk about how to sell more stuff to more people in more ways and build businesses worth owning.

I'm trying to build a billion dollar thing with acquisition.com. I always

wish Basos, Musk, and Buffett had documented their journey, so I'm doing it for the

rest of us. Please share and enjoy.

If you have your menu option of things that you can do in life, just remove quitting as one of them and then try your next idea.

And if you are in that rocky cut scene and you're two months in, three months in,

remember that the rocky cut scene in the movie lasts a couple

seconds and the rocky cut scene in real life might last a few years. And so whenever I get to a low

point where I think, why don't even bother doing this? I just like to remind myself this is where most people

stop and this is why they don't win. And as hard as this is going to sound, the best thing

that I ever did was not listen to other people's opinions about my life. They don't want the best

version of you. They want the version of you who best serves them. And unfortunately,

the closer people are to you, the more similarly they'll see themselves in you, and the more your success will make them feel bad about themselves.

And I can promise you this from somebody who might be a little further.

I have more people who root for me now that I have already won than people who

rooted for me along the way. No one is doing as well as you think they're doing.

So by comparison everyone is better off than they think because the cumulative median visually is probably three

times higher than what the actual median is and so if you're like oh I'm average or slightly

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