ITL162: How Your Own Jealousy Can Keep You from Progress
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2014
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about selfishness, and how it can keep you and everyone around you from growing.
One of the top three most important things Jones ever told me was, “Most people live their entire lives and never understand that you can’t always believe everything you think.”
- I received a call a few months ago from a company that lost one of their executives to another company offering more money, and it was a big problem.
- The company let him go because they wouldn’t match the offer for a reason that they may think is true, but it’s not.
- I think if Moses spent more time on the mountain he would have come back with the 11th decision, “Thou shalt not kid thyself.”
The truth isn’t that they couldn’t match the offer; the truth is that they chose not to match the offer.
- The deeper issue is… what is in your belief system or plans for the future that causes you to choose not to match that offer?
- Did that person start developing bad habits or peak with what they were bringing to the company?
You want to increase your value, but watch the people you work with and keep an eye on their value.
- As an example let’s say that you’ve made $100,000 for many years.
- There is an opportunity to bring someone new to the team, but they will be making $350,000.
- In turn, they bring enough value to raise your salary to $175,000.
- Don’t let jealousy get in the way of something that could be great for the company and great for you.
- The bottom line is there are many ways to increase your value.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.3 | Hi and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. Andy, once again, |
| 0:18.9 | thank you for joining us. Honored to be here, buddy. Thank you. We're sitting across the table from each other again this |
| 0:23.8 | week, and that's always fun, but you're wearing a shirt that makes me smile. Your shirt |
| 0:29.0 | fits you perfectly in so many different ways, but it's got a little drawing. It's a little river |
| 0:36.2 | or lake or whatever you want to interpret it as. It's got |
| 0:38.6 | some trees and the moon and some birds and everything. And then the text in the middle of all of that |
| 0:43.4 | says, think outside. No box required. Now, for you, obviously, and for everybody, this has meaning |
| 0:52.3 | on multiple levels. But you love the outdoors. You're always outside. But you have, you, and for everybody, this has meaning on multiple levels, but you love the outdoors, |
| 0:54.4 | you're always outside, but you have, you've talked for years about how, uh, how important it is |
| 1:00.9 | to not think like everyone else, to think outside the box. In fact, you know, thinking outside |
| 1:05.5 | the box has become such a cliche that, that it's no longer outside the box, right? you know i i talked to so many companies and teams and they say you know we we try to think outside the box we want to think outside the box and i'm like well you know you you got to understand that if everybody's thinking outside the box then nobody's singing outside of the box. I mean, really? |
| 1:28.5 | Right. |
| 1:29.1 | Right. I mean, and so I'm, what I'm saying to most people is I want, if you're going to have an |
| 1:38.1 | opportunity to have extraordinary achievements going on in your life, then you can't just think outside the box. |
| 1:46.2 | You've got to think way out of town, far away from the neighborhood that has the factory |
| 1:57.3 | that makes the boxes that everybody else is sitting around outside of. |
| 2:01.7 | Right. |
| 2:02.2 | You know, I mean, we've got to get way out there. And, you know, it's still, you're still |
| 2:10.6 | chasing truth. I think, I really believe, and I've said this before, if Moses had had |
| 2:16.4 | more time on the mountain, |
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