Welcome guys and gals to the Man Talks podcast. I'm Connor Beatton, the host and founder of Man Talks.

This podcast and Man Talks exists to help develop self-aware, high-performing and impactful men in the world, men you want to be around, and the men you want to be.

Just a reminder for all the guys to head over to Facebook and join the Man Talks community.

We've got some great conversations going on there and some incredible men have joined the community recently and over the past six months.

And we have grown exponentially.

We're almost at 1,500 members now, which is pretty crazy.

Obviously, it's free, but it's a great resource where we talk about fitness, finance.

We talk about relationships, fatherhood, intimacy,

entrepreneurship, you name it, we dive into it. So it's a great resource. We got some great

challenges going on there. So go over to facebook.com forward slash man talks community and join the

conversation. On today's episode, I am, I'm going to go on a little bit of a tangent first, just to kind of preface what we're going to talk about.

But then we're going to talk about how to create meaningful and measurable results.

So I'm going to start by saying, not everyone out there is doing their best.

And I say that with love and respect.

But we live in this age and this time where complacency is rewarded.

And mediocrity is like celebrated, where we give out participation awards at work and in schools.

And we celebrate people just because they tried, even though they fail.

Listen, I get that there's guilt and shame that comes

along with failing. I hate failing, but I do not want to be celebrated because I failed. I do not

want to be celebrated because I tried. That is not when I want to celebrate. That is not what I

personally think should be incentivized.

We should not be incentivizing complacency and mediocrity and half-assed results.

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