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The Leaders Edge: Do You Have It?

DarrenDaily On-Demand

Darren Hardy LLC

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Are you limiting your potential by being too reasonable? Discover why extraordinary achievements stem from unreasonable ideas, and why surrounding yourself with 'unreasonable' people might be your key to success.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Darren Daily on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

0:07.0

Here's your success mentor Darren Hardy.

0:25.0

This morning I got to reason with you about something here. You got to stop being reasonable. It's stunting you and you got to stop hanging out with reasonable with reasonable. It's stunting you and you got to stop hanging out with reasonable people. They're spoiling your dreams.

0:27.0

This is if you ever want to do anything, unreasonable.

0:30.0

No great achievement was ever reasonable. Not a one. It was incredibly unreasonable for a newly elected president, the second youngest in American history, who many called not just unqualified and inexperienced, but also naive to claim

0:46.1

that we could ever put a man on the moon before the decade was out.

0:51.0

At the time that he said it, September 12th, 1962, he and all of NASA had no idea how they would achieve that goal.

0:59.0

It was totally unreasonable and most everybody else thought it was certainly unreasonable as well.

1:05.0

A Gallup poll in fact indicated that 58% of Americans were opposed to this idea

1:11.0

and said that it would embarrass us once again in front of the Russians.

1:15.2

When another man shared his dream that one day sons of former slaves and the sons of former

1:20.5

slave owners would one day sit down together at the table of

1:24.0

Brotherhood how incredibly unreasonable was it to have that dream and imagine how

1:30.0

unreasonable it would be to dream that a few decades later one of his own

1:35.1

brethren would sit behind a desk in the Oval Office. For a guy who doesn't have a

1:41.2

degree in astrophysics to say that he's going to start a space program

1:45.7

and one day colonize Mars or take on Big Auto or revolutionize the energy market or build a hyperloop,

1:54.4

the modern day Iron Man has proved to be perpetually unreasonable.

1:59.6

How about a 30 year old with no job

2:01.8

starting from his garage and alone from his parents

2:04.9

proclaiming that he'd build the largest online retailer in the world. So

2:10.3

unreasonable but he still named it Amazon to suggest its future scale.

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