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🗓️ 22 June 2025
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In this “Lessons” episode, Michael Sartain explains why most self-help advice keeps you stuck by rewarding passive consumption over real action. He challenges the comfort of feel-good platitudes and pushes for bold, opinionated expression as a means to cut through the noise. Sartain shares how having a polarizing stance, seeking attention ethically, and stepping outside the fear of judgment are key to personal and entrepreneurial growth. With blunt clarity, he argues that the true enemy of progress is not failure, but inaction—and urges listeners to stop hiding behind excuses, embrace discomfort, and actually do the work.
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0:00.0 | In this Lessons episode, discover why taking bold action beats playing it safe online. |
0:05.2 | Learn how having a strong opinion helps you stand out in a crowded market. |
0:08.4 | Learn why seeking attention is not unethical if you are solving real problems, |
0:12.0 | and learn how inaction is the true enemy of progress, not fear or failure. Oh, so I actually think you're not giving yourself enough credit. |
0:29.0 | Because what you're talking about is, is really just creating provocative content. |
0:34.9 | Oh, no, no, no, no. |
0:35.4 | Yeah, it's a spiky point of view. |
0:36.9 | No, no, no, no, but I want to tell you, hear out my idea and then I know you'll have an answer. |
0:41.2 | But yeah, my point is what the Paul brothers do, what Grant Cardone does, they're not like evil |
0:46.9 | people. |
0:48.1 | Some people, I'm sure, think they're not great, but they're not evil people. Being an asshole on social media is very different than being a like, like doing |
0:55.4 | illegal shit and building a business that way. So I think there is still a line between good and |
1:00.6 | evil. There's there's shades of good. Of course. Yes. That's what I know. Of course what you're |
1:06.4 | saying is correct. I'm not telling you to be evil. What I'm telling you is to give yourself |
1:10.7 | permission. That's all I'm saying. you to be evil. What I'm telling you is to give yourself permission. |
1:12.4 | That's all I'm saying. It's like so many people don't want to take action on social media |
1:17.2 | because they're afraid to give themselves permission, yet we just put a man in office who fucked a |
1:23.1 | porn star while his wife was pregnant and we elected him twice. And I'm not criticizing him because I voted for him too. |
1:29.2 | My point is you're worried about a meme you were going to post or an Instagram account |
1:33.7 | you were going to make or a YouTube video because you cared so much about what the people at work |
1:38.3 | thought about you and your fat aunt that you go see at Thanksgiving every year. |
1:42.0 | By the way, just in case you're wondering, you join my program. This is how you get spoken to every day. Okay. I'm a former, I'm a U.S. |
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