The Gift Inside Every Setback
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | man-made constructs have no time, right? So infinite has no time. So what happens with people? |
| 0:05.7 | How many here thinks the more money you give, the more money you receive? Anyone believe that? |
| 0:10.7 | Not true. More you give, the more you give, the more you receive, absolutely true. But money has a |
| 0:17.1 | value. So when you're giving your money, the more value you give, the more value you receive. |
| 0:22.2 | That's the infinite. The more kindness you give, more kindness you receive, more love you give, |
| 0:26.5 | the more love you receive, more forgiveness you give. No problem. But this is what people think. |
| 0:32.0 | If I told you, and I was like super intelligent guy going, oh, the more French fries you give, the more French fries you're going to receive back? |
| 0:41.1 | People are like, dude, you're crazy. |
| 0:42.9 | That's the same thing as saying, the more money you give. |
| 0:45.1 | Money's the same as a French fry. |
| 0:46.4 | It's a man-made construct. |
| 0:48.8 | So when we start understanding how giving works, we start realizing one that man-made constructs have nothing |
| 0:56.2 | to do with the infinite. The giving's in the infinite. So when we give in the infinite, we give more, |
| 1:04.5 | we're given. We don't receive. So you give more and you're given more. But you have, like, if somebody would tell me, and this guy's almost known me that long, |
| 1:14.7 | somebody would have told me when I lost everything, including my mom's house, |
| 1:17.3 | that I was being given so much, I'd have told them to app off. |
| 1:22.4 | Immediately, I'd be like, what are you insane? |
| 1:26.3 | Are you on drugs? |
| 1:30.8 | I'm being given something. I just lost over $100 million including my mom's house. The only reason I want to be rich was the buyer of this house and I'm being |
| 1:35.1 | given something. Well, here I am 18 years later and it was the greatest gift I've ever given. |
| 1:40.3 | It'd been given. Greatest. Save my life, save my marriage, made me more money than I ever imagined by losing all of that. |
| 1:49.3 | Pissing my wife off when she's like, well, you lost over $100 million, blah, blah, blah. |
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