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Here's your success mentor Darren Hardy.

Probably like you. I was taught the number one key to success is hard work. Just out

work, out study, out train everybody around you. My dad would persistently preach to me as if it were

our father or Hail Mary prayer or something. And while hard work is important, I've learned it's overrated.

Hard work is not even number one, two, or three important to success.

If hard work was number one to success, the cooks who work in the heat of greasy restaurant

kitchens, the janitors who clean up after them, the nurses who pull 12-hour back-breaking shifts,

the gardeners that I see out there sweating in the hot sun, and so many others.

All of them would be driving Bentley's

and living in mansions.

But they're not.

Why?

Because hard work is not the number one path to success.

Imagine that you're pushing on a door to open it, but it doesn't open.

You're standing there, pushing, pushing, pushing, but it won't open.

Then some instag guru comes up behind you and tells you the key to opening up the door

is to put harder and harder, get up and grind, harder, right? And so you do exactly that.

You push harder and harder, but the door still doesn't open. Now you feel like a failure.

Everything that you read on Inst scam or watch on Tic-Tac tells you to get up and

grind. You gotta wanna open up the door more than you want oxygen itself. So what do you do? You push even harder. Finally, after several minutes, years, or decades of pushing the door as hard as you can, someone, maybe a handsome chap in a COalt blue shirt, walks up, pulls the door open with ease,

and motions you to walk in the building.

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