Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,970.

I recently heard an interview with Sam Altman, who is the chat GP2T guy, and he was talking about

successful founders. And his advice, I think think is not just successful founders but it could

also apply to successful leaders parents coaches you name it you listening to this and he goes on to say

that the most successful founders have one trait in common and that determination. And he feels that it's more important

than being smart. It's more important than someone's network. It's being determined. And he says,

because there is so much bad stuff that happens at a high frequency. And the level of bad stuff

that happens is at a high intensity, it doesn't matter how smart

you are. If you're not determined, you're going to give up. It doesn't matter how good your network is,

how good your idea is. If you're not determined, you're going to give up. And I think that's so true

in life. Being determined, this dogged persistence and relentlessness to keep going after it,

those are the people who are hard to destroy.

Those are the people who are hard to beat, the person who doesn't give up.

And so as you're pursuing, whatever you're pursuing or you're trying to accomplish,

remember that even though you

may be struggling even though you may feel like you are trying to solve a problem that's nearly

impossible it's your determination and sticking to it and grit that's really going to help you

push through so just keep reminding yourself i'm not going to give up i'm not going to help you push through. So just keep reminding yourself, I'm not going to give up.

I'm not going to give up.

And if I do quit, I'm going to quit tomorrow.

Every day, if you do quit, just tell yourself we're going to quit tomorrow.

And then tomorrow comes, tell yourself you're going to quit tomorrow.

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