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Noah Kagan Presents

Entrepreneur Appetizer #8: Waves

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

How do you get something you want? It might sound strange, but waves in the ocean taught me about business and leadership recently. Today, I’m sharing the story with you — and showing you how to better succeed in business. Use these lessons in your own business and career.

Full show notes at https://okdork.com/podcast/80

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0:00.0

What is up you sexy bastards? It's your boy Noah Kagan, aka

0:05.4

rabba can't lose, aka sweet tea. It's one of those entrepreneur

0:08.8

appetizers number I don't even remember. These are three to five minute

0:11.4

tips, super digestible that you can take with you

0:13.9

that are business and leadership lessons for life. Today's tip is about waves.

0:18.8

Waves, what is he talking about waves? Not talking about waving. I'm talking about waves in the ocean. So this past weekend I was in Mexico, which is awesome. I don't know why we're building a wall. I love that place. I want to keep going there as easy as possible. So I was in Mexico and I was bodyboarding, boogie boarding. Have you ever done that? And I was boogie boarding

0:35.0

with my good friend Neville and we were sitting in the ocean and I'm waiting for the waves to come.

0:41.4

Waiting for the waves and they're coming next to me and they're coming the side and I see people further over away. to come

0:43.0

the side, and I see people further over away.

0:45.0

And finally, I started paddling and a wave hit me.

0:48.0

And I was able to ride, you know, like maybe a few feet.

0:50.0

It was pretty pathetic.

0:51.0

And Neville comes up to me, he he goes you're going to make that an

0:54.0

entrepreneur appetizer aren't you? I was like yes I am and so it might be small

0:59.1

but it's something for you to think about in your own life is that if you're wanting something and you're sitting in the ocean

1:04.8

and you're on your bodyboard, are you just waiting for the wave to come to you? Are you actually

1:08.7

paddling for the wave? Because I think there's a lot of times in my life where I'm just kind of waiting for something to happen,

1:14.0

but you need to actually go out and go to the wave and be there and think about how can I make this happen for myself.

1:20.0

Another thing to think about is that if you're wanting something to happen, you gotta be in the ocean.

1:24.4

That's another key thing to really think about from this entrepreneur appetizer.

1:27.4

If you want to be writing waves, if you want to have certain lifestyle, if you want certain freedoms,

1:31.0

get out in the ocean. And number three take away from being in the

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