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The Fizzle Show

Episode 174: The Art of Thinking Big (FS174)

The Fizzle Show

fizzle.co

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8648 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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    <p>We probably all have one of those friends in our lives who thinks *too* big. Or those who once thought too big. Maybe now they’re angry at the world, jaded, cynical. [Show Notes: fizzleshow.co/174] **There’s a danger to thinking too big.** It can burn us out, burn us up, make us miss all the amazing that’s happening right now. **There is also a danger of thinking too small.** You keep doing what you’ve always done because you’ve always done it and then one day it doesn’t work. The market and the world has moved on. That danger could hurt you *financially*. You could also get hurt *psychologically* by thinking too small. Not a single one of us wants to end our careers thinking, “dammit I wish I would have been more brave, saw the bigger picture earlier on.” So, there’s an art to thinking big, and that’s what we explore in this podcast episode. We have no books to sell. We’re not gurus. We’re just a couple people who’ve been trying to think bigger (without toppling over) for about a decade with some success to show for it. I hope you love this episode. Enjoy!</p>

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Fizzle Show.

0:07.0

Sorry, I really got taken away into the moment there.

0:23.9

This is The Fizzle Show.

0:25.6

Every Friday, we publish another conversation

0:28.7

about the art and science of supporting yourself

0:32.1

doing something that you care about.

0:34.4

And in this episode, it's a doozy.

0:37.1

We are talking about the art of thinking big.

0:40.8

Now, we probably all have one of those friends in our lives who might think a little too big,

0:45.2

right? The crazy people in our life were just like, yeah, man, I'm going to be president.

0:49.6

Or maybe we know someone who used to think big and then had their dreams kind of shattered.

0:54.6

And they're cynical or jaded.

0:56.2

They don't believe in thinking big anymore.

0:58.4

There's definitely a danger to thinking too big.

1:01.1

It can burn us out, burn us up.

1:03.5

It can make us miss all the amazing things that are happening right now.

1:07.7

But there is also a danger of thinking too small. You keep doing what you've always done

1:13.7

because you've always done it, and then maybe one day that doesn't work. The market has moved on,

1:19.9

or the world has moved on. And that danger not only can hurt you financially thinking too small,

1:25.1

but maybe psychologically or emotionally, you know, ending your

1:28.8

career or your life going like, dude, I wish I was more brave. I wish I saw the bigger picture

1:33.7

earlier on. There's an art to thinking big, and that's what we're going to get into in this

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