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The Russell Brunson Show

Drifter vs. the Driven: Breaking the Patterns That Hold You Back - Part 2 | #Success - Ep. 105

The Russell Brunson Show

Russell Brunson

Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8982 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to part two of my drifter vs. driven presentation. This is where everything clicks—and where things get uncomfortable in the best way possible. In part one, I helped you recognize where drifting starts and why so many people feel stuck even though they’re working hard. In this episode, I walk you through how driven people actually break free from those patterns. This isn’t a hype talk. This is about identity, belief, and the internal systems that quietly control your behavior. I share the frameworks I’ve used in wrestling, business, and life to move forward when fear, resistance, and old habits try to pull you back. If you’ve ever felt like you know you’re capable of more but can’t quite access it, this episode will show you why. Key Highlights: ◼️Why the most powerful driven identity you can adopt is becoming the learner—and why it’s completely anti-fragile ◼️How clarifying your values creates real motivation instead of relying on willpower ◼️Why having a definite purpose is the true dividing line between drifters and driven people ◼️How resistance is proof you’re on the right path, not a sign to stop ◼️Why rules, standards, and guardrails matter more than motivation ◼️The only belief that truly matters—and why you don’t need talent, luck, or special gifts to win Drifting doesn’t happen because you’re lazy or broken. It happens because unconscious patterns are running your life. In this episode, I show you how to surface those patterns, replace them with faith-driven systems, and start moving forward on purpose. If part one helped you see where you’ve been drifting, part two gives you the framework to become driven. Listen closely—because once you understand this, it becomes almost impossible to keep playing small. ◼️If you’ve got a product, offer, service… or idea… I’ll show you how to sell it (the RIGHT way) Register for my next event →⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://sellingonline.com/podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ◼️Still don’t have a funnel? ClickFunnels gives you the exact tools (and templates) to launch TODAY → ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://clickfunnels.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Do you have a funnel, but it's not converting? The problem 99.9% of the time is that your funnel

0:05.0

is good, but you suck at selling. If you want to learn how to sell so your funnels will actually convert,

0:09.9

then get a ticket to my next selling online event by going to sellingonline.com slash podcast.

0:14.6

That's selling online.com slash podcast.

0:19.5

What's up, everyone? This is Russell. Welcome back to the show. I hope you guys enjoyed last episode. If you haven't a chance to listen to it yet, this is part of a two, two episode series. So pause this and go back and listen to episode number one. Otherwise, this won't make much sense. You're kind of jumping in the middle of a conversation. But this is the recordings from the Midnight Mastermind. I did it at the recent Mastermind in Paradise with my inner circle and my two CCX members.

0:40.9

And this is, you know, my process I'm going through to help people become more successful.

0:47.1

And I think that some of the few times I've ever kind of taught this stuff during a live event,

0:52.8

it was late night with those groups and it was really, really fun. And So anyway, without any further ado, I'm going to jump into the second half of this session. I hope you guys enjoy. I hope you get a lot of value from it. And with that said, I'm going to jump back into the drifters versus the driven. This is the Russell Brunson show. So you have your drifter identity on left-hand side. Now I want to talk about your driven identity. Okay. Now, as I was putting this together, I had a lot of fun with this. I was like, okay, we've got 10 different drifter identities. Maybe there's like another 10 or 15 different driven identity and some of that. But as they kept cutting back layers and cutting back layers,

1:28.8

I realized that there's a better way.

1:34.4

And there's really only one core identity that all driven people are using.

1:35.3

And so I want to talk about that.

1:39.2

So first I want to tell you guys a story.

1:42.5

So when I was wrestling, I started wrestling in eighth grade.

1:44.1

And eighth grade, I did all right. Ninth grade, I started doing better. And then my ninth grade year after I finished the season, I had chance to hire a wrestling coach. His name is Greg Williams, one of our co-friends right here. She's friends with Greg. Greg is a wrestling coach. And he was the coach for freestyle and Greco, which is the Olympic styles in wrestling. So during the season you wrestle, collegiate style or American style, then offseason do freestyle and greco which is the Olympic styles and wrestling so during the season you wrestle collegiate style or american style then offseason you freestyle and greco so my very first tournament i met this freestyle greco tournament greggs my brand new coach i've never really wrestled them before coached them before he better like coached like two weeks but read this tournament huge tournament in my bracket there's like 30 or 40 other wrestlers and so i'm wrestling going out there're going out there and I'm willing to some matches. I'm losing some matches.

2:19.1

And grade was the first time he's ever coaching me.

2:20.9

I remember I went on this match.

2:22.6

I started wrestling and then during the break, you have a chance to come out.

2:25.6

He's like, hey, so you're doing well.

2:28.8

But you're standing to you eye.

2:30.2

You got to lower your stance and get your elbows in and get more motion and kind of really quickly explain me what to do so like okay so i got out there and we started wrestling in i did exactly what he said i took a guy down and i ended up beating him and i came off and great started looking at me like like kind of looking me in this weird way and i was like i was like what he's like wow he's like i have all these wrestlers and i tell them what to do and most of them don't actually do it he's like i, I told you do something. You did it. You are so coachable. You gave me a gift that day. He gave me

2:55.5

new identity. Prior to that, I didn't know it's coachable. I didn't know anything. I was just like, and Greg said, you're coachable. And this became an identity. I'm like, I'm coachable. okay then I went to practice the next day and I was trying to move I wasn't very good to move

3:06.5

but I wasn't upset instead I was like well I'm coachball I'm just I'm the coachable wrestler I never met

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