On this episode of the playbook I have renowned Hollywood director and the producer Doug Ellen the creator of Entourage and we're going to talk about never take rejection personally and one of the most important factors in manifesting success in Hollywood and entertainment. Join me for all this and more on the

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I'm your host David Melzer.

It is Dave Melzer with entrepreneursurs, the Playbook, and I have a unbelievable guest, an entrepreneur in the entertainment space. Doug Ellen, everybody knows, director, producer, entourage.

It's interesting because everyone has different personality traits

to get to the highest level of success.

And one of the things that you and I differ in

is you're a procrastinator.

Oh, you're not, huh?

I don't want to be by the way.

I hate it.

It's destroyed a large portion of my life, you know,

so it's not a good thing,

but it is, you know,

I talked to a lot of people about this like after watching the last dance. It's not, you know, it's not just that Michael was the best athlete. He also had the best mentality and you need both to do both I'm actually you know I have

Michael's mentality in sports I don't have his athletic ability but in what I'm good

at I'm kind of a little lack of daysical so it's not it's not a good thing.

That's so interesting right because like I attribute a lot of my success that I took all

the things I don't have much talent in sports either but I played college football off of this drive right like

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