No Excuse. the Centric People Just Always Lose – A Knowledge Bomb

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneur, Thrivetime, Businessschool, Smallbusiness, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Is it bad to be eccentric? Was Benjamin Franklin eccentric? Was George Washington Carver eccentric? Is it possible to be successful without being eccentric? Clay Clark breaks down the harsh reality that you must find a deep burning maniacal obsession with something if you aspire to ever truly be great at anything.

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0:00.0	Grab the duct tape and mentally prepare yourself for yet another mind expanding
0:08.5	knowledge bomb from America's number one business coach, Clay Clark.
0:13.6	All right guys, we're talking on this segment
0:20.0	about the importance of embracing this harsh truth.
0:24.0	All right? There's no excuse.
0:26.2	The centric people always just lose.
0:30.3	What does it mean to be centric?
0:32.3	Centric is like the median.
0:34.0	It's the average.
0:36.0	Ecentric means unconventional, slightly strange.
0:40.0	Maybe somebody who is displaying a
0:43.7	disproportionate amount of interest or focus in one thing.
0:48.4	Napoleon Hill, the best-selling author, writes about the importance of having a white hot burning desire for
0:56.2	your definite chief aim.
0:58.9	Some people call it a magnificent obsession, but you have to be obsessed and enthusiastic about something at a level that doesn't
1:08.7	make sense for most people.
1:11.2	Most people don't have an abnormal level of success which is why their
1:16.6	worldview is centric most people according to Gallup 70% of Americans hate their jobs, according to Forbes 90% of startups fail, startup businesses,
1:29.0	and 80% of businesses fail.
1:31.0	So the vast majority of people aren't happy with their
1:36.0	success that they're having in their given sport, they're given career, they're
1:40.1	given anything. And so if you're going to be the kind of person who has
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