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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Have you ever felt too close to a problem in order to see it clearly?

Like you're staring at pixels instead of the whole picture. Today I'm going to

share with you one of the most powerful mental resets available for any leader or any entrepreneur

and any spouse, parent, coach, or friend, a conversation that could literally save your business,

save your career, any major project or relationship that you have. But first, let me take you back to the

1980s. Intel, now a household name in computing, was in trouble, deep trouble. Their stock was

plummeting. Japanese competitors were flooding the market with cheaper memory chips. Intel's

core business at the time. The company was hemorrhaging money and market share. Intel's president,

Andy Grove, and CEO Gordon Moore were facing what seemed like an impossible situation. Then

Grove asked Moore a question that would change everything. He asked, if we got kicked out and the

board brought in a new CEO, what do you think they would do?

Moore's answer was immediate and crystal clear. They would get us out of memory chips.

Grove stared at him and said, why shouldn't you and I walk out the door, come back and do it ourselves?

That single conversation led to one of the

most successful pivots in business history. Intel abandoned memory chips, the very product that

had made their company, and went all in on microprocessors. And the rest, as they say, is history. Intel became the dominant force in computer

chips for decades to come. But here's what fascinates me about this story. Both Grove and

Moore already knew that they needed to exit the memory chip business. The data was clear. The

trends were obvious. The financial reality was staring

them in the face, but they couldn't see it, or more accurately, they couldn't act on it until they

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