How Steve Jobs Got What He Wanted
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Darren Hardy LLC
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Most people have something they really want at work, in their business, in their personal life. They think about it. They hope for it. They wait for the perfect moment. Darren Hardy challenges that pattern by exposing the simple, almost embarrassingly obvious habit that separates those who actually get what they want from those who don't.
This one skill, outlined in this episode, decides whether your next big want stays a daydream or becomes the thing you actually land. And it's learnable.
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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. |
| 0:13.6 | Today, I'm going to share a story with you that will change how you approach most everything, |
| 0:19.1 | your career, your relationships, your dreams. But first, let me ask you |
| 0:23.3 | something. When was the last time you just asked for exactly what you wanted? Not what you |
| 0:29.2 | thought you could get, not what seemed reasonable, but exactly what you wanted. I'm talking |
| 0:34.8 | about the big stuff, the promotion, the partnership, the opportunity. |
| 0:39.4 | Most of us never do this. We hint around the edges. We drop subtle suggestions. We wait for |
| 0:45.3 | somebody else to offer. But here's what I've learned. From getting up close and personal |
| 0:49.9 | with the most successful people on the planet, The difference between those who get what they want |
| 0:54.5 | and those who don't often comes down to one simple thing. They ask. Let me tell you about a 12-year-old |
| 1:03.9 | kid who understood this better than most adults ever will. This kid was part of something called |
| 1:09.1 | the Explorers Club, a place where young computer |
| 1:11.9 | geeks got together to build home-brewed electronics and computers. He was working on a project |
| 1:16.9 | that hit a dead end. He needed one specific part, a component made by Hewlett Packard. Now, |
| 1:22.7 | what would most people do? Well, they'd say, I can't go any farther. Give up. Find a substitute. |
| 1:28.1 | Ask a friend. Ask a friend, |
| 1:34.8 | ask a friend. Not this kid. He lit up the CEO of Hewlett Packard, Bill Hewlett, in the phone book, |
| 1:40.6 | and called him at home. Hello, Mr. Hewlett, he said, I need this part from my project. |
| 1:49.7 | Bill Hewlett was running one of the world's largest and most successful tech companies at the time. He was a multi-millionaire and his schedule was packed, but he was amused by this bold 12-year-old. Okay, he said, I'll get you that part. Now, if you |
| 1:56.0 | expected gratitude, you'd be surprised but what happened next. I'd also like a summer job, the kid said, |
| 2:02.0 | and Beale Hullet said, sure, to that too. That 12-year-old was Steve Jobs. But wait, the story gets better. |
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