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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Impact of Choices on Personal Fulfillment

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I take the stage at a recent TAG Talks event, an inspiring gathering focused on Transparency, Acceptance, and Growth. I share insights from my journey, revealing how life's discomfort signals crucial lessons. Through my experiences, I illustrate the significance of lessons that resonate and the role of criticism, championing the use of storytelling in building a connection. I challenge the conventional pursuit of happiness, advocating for a focus on realizing one's potential instead. Highlighting the importance of being genuinely curious over merely interesting, I share a pivotal realization: wealth does not ensure happiness. Adopting gratitude, forgiveness, and accountability led to a profound personal transformation, guiding me towards true contentment. This episode is an invitation to embrace a life of abundance, encouraging making money, helping others, and enjoying the journey, all while cultivating a supportive community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success.

0:12.0

I'm here to talk about speaking, storytelling,

0:16.1

but most importantly, lessons.

0:18.0

Because what I've learned through my journey

0:20.4

in storytelling is life is about lessons. The lessons keep on coming

0:25.1

until we learn them. Pain is an indicator only that you have a lesson to learn. The

0:31.0

same lesson will keep on coming if you haven't learned that lesson.

0:34.0

Pain will go away when you learn the lesson.

0:36.0

And there's no better way to teach lessons through history, and I study history,

0:42.0

particularly because human nature never changes,

0:47.0

and it's a huge advantage in not only storytelling, but lesson learning to understand human nature.

0:52.0

But as history tells us that... learning to understand human nature.

0:52.6

But as history tells us that these lessons

0:56.2

are always told through stories.

0:58.4

And so I want to illustrate how important

1:01.2

in a different aspect, storytelling is by the lessons that you teach.

1:06.0

The number one thing I've learned about lessons, especially today with the enormous amount of

1:10.1

data and exposure to lessons and stories that we have, is that we of one of the last two rules of being human is that we learn lessons and we will

1:27.2

forget every lesson that we learned but we have the capability to remember it

1:31.6

remind ourselves,

1:33.2

recollect with the, whether you believe

1:36.0

in a Coshick records or the infinite loop

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