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🗓️ 13 October 2025
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Everyone dreams of leaving a mark that lasts for generations. But what if everything you've been told about "big vision" is backwards? In this powerful insight from Darren Hardy, you'll see how true visionaries build greatness—not from grand plans—but from something surprisingly humble!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day. |
| 0:07.3 | Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy. |
| 0:13.4 | So you say you want to dent the universe, make a lasting impact felt for generations. Do something |
| 0:19.9 | significant. Build an endurable legacy. |
| 0:23.4 | Here's the problem. Those that we deem as visionaries didn't start out with a grand vision at all. |
| 0:29.7 | In fact, if they had, they likely would never have achieved their grand outcomes. You see, |
| 0:34.3 | the grander your vision, the greater your ambition, the further out into the future |
| 0:38.6 | you are projected. |
| 0:39.9 | The more likely you are going to be wrong, the less likely you are to endure. |
| 0:45.0 | Most every great visionary that you admire started small, super small, insignificant even. |
| 0:50.9 | They did something unscalable, unimpressive even. Bill Gates wrote a basic interpreter |
| 0:57.0 | for a machine with a couple thousand users. Steve's jobs, with Woz, built homemade computers |
| 1:03.0 | in their garage for a circle of their friends. Jeff Bezos started selling books online from his garage. |
| 1:09.0 | Mark Zuckerberg set up a website for him and his douchey buddies |
| 1:12.6 | to rate the girls hot or not on the Harvard campus. |
| 1:16.2 | Coco Chanel opened up a small shop in Paris in 1910 to just sell hats. |
| 1:20.7 | Phil Knight started selling Japanese running shoes from the trunk of his car. |
| 1:24.7 | Reed Hastings started a mail-order DVD rental service. Walt Disney began |
| 1:29.2 | with a small animation studio that failed. S. Day Lauder began selling skin creams that she made at home |
| 1:34.7 | to local salons and hotels. I could go on and on and on. None of these legendary entrepreneurs |
| 1:40.2 | started with some grand vision. But what all these great visionaries did do is start. |
| 1:47.4 | They started and they started small, super small, insignificant even. They did something unscalable, |
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