Get ready to enter the Thrive Time Show.

Show them on your radio. Hopefully most of you had a wonderful,

hopefully all of you had a wonderful Christmas.

And now you're ready to get back to business.

Well, actually you're not going to be able to get back to business yet,

because it is the Holla Plegs, which is a time during the year that's kind of

in between Christmas and New Year's Day, a time that I affectionately call the

Holla Plegs. It's like a plague on business.

Where nobody really can get a whole lot done because half your staff is gone

or they're coming back from a trip or they're getting ready to leave for a trip.

And so basically companies just almost grind to a halt during this time of the

year, unless you're in retail, in which case you're busy all the time.

Or if you're amazon.com, you are just rocking right now.

But today we are breaking down the book Think and Grow Rich.

And specifically, we are hammering home the importance,

the importance of having persistence of how to,

learning how to fight through rejection.

And so I want to read the excerpt from Think and Grow Rich to you one more time

because I think if you get this idea, it'll, it'll blow your mind.

Page 19 from the 1945 edition of Think and Grow Rich, Think and Grow Rich reads,

Barnes did not get his partnership with Edison on his first interview.

He did not get a chance to get his partnership with Edison on his first

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