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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Good morning. So in the Entrepreneur Roadcoaster book, I told you the story about when I acquired my dream home

atop Tiburon, across the bay from San Francisco.

And when I walked my dad up to the floor to ceiling, wall-to-wall, picture glass window that overlooked the most breathtaking, literally, and spectacular views you possibly could even imagine, to ask him proudly what he thought of it.

And he responded with, look, there's a water

stain up there in the corner pointing at the ceiling. Of the billions of things visible standing at

the precipice of what felt like standing atop the world, he found the one possible negative. It was heartbreaking.

And this is not just a crappy quirk that my father had.

It is one that we all have.

We are negative-seeking creatures.

Even in the most magnificent of situations or circumstances,

we can find what's wrong with it, And we usually do. While I find the

aspect of our nature perpetually annoying, I guess it does make sense. You see, for hundreds of

thousands of years, we walked around on the savannas in a loincloth with a flimsy spear and wondered

when we might be lunched to a fanged clawed

and much bigger and faster and stronger predator. Looking across the vast and probably

beautiful savanna, we had to look for and seek out the one thing that wasn't just right.

The one possible negative and potentially dangerous thing from the billions

of sensory inputs that we're experiencing, the rustle in the grass, the moving shadow in the

distance, the odd sound. You are here because your ancestors were pessimists. They constantly

sought out the negative. But what about the optimist,

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