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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Most Successful People Ask for Help

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I talk about why entrepreneurship feels terrifying when progress moves slowly and the daily evidence rarely matches where you want to go. I explain how fear grows from uncertainty, why people tie happiness to future outcomes, and how that mindset keeps you stuck. I share what happened when I lost everything and why returning to humility taught me to ask for help instead of refusing it. I break down resistance from critics and from people who love you, then get into perceived value, pricing confidence, and why practicing your message with feedback matters. Staying in the learning zone is where momentum actually builds.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right. First question, the hardest.

0:02.3

Entrepreneurship feels like you're afraid of succeeded. Where does that come from?

0:07.2

Yeah. Because we haven't gotten there. Why is entrepreneurship carry the fear?

0:12.6

Why is entrepreneurship carry so much fear with it? Why do we feel all the time that we're not where we want to be?

0:18.9

Well, first of all, the rule of 72 is just as applicable to finance.

0:23.2

It's applicable to life.

0:24.3

So we have to remember ourselves, especially business, things happen very slowly, then all

0:29.5

of a sudden.

0:30.3

So things happen very slowly and all of a sudden, even in economics, the evidence that

0:35.2

we are presented with each day, it's either not there or contrary

0:40.6

to where we want to be. I spoke about that on stage when I went BK, right? The evidence was

0:45.2

contrary to where I wanted to be, but it was all in a growth towards where I wanted to be.

0:51.7

So first of all, it's so fear evoking because there's never evidence that we're going to get

0:57.5

to where we want to be.

0:58.4

That's why there's so many overnight successes that took 17 and a half to 35 years to get

1:03.1

there.

1:03.8

Because things happen so slowly, then all of a sudden, that's why the desire that you must

1:08.2

be what you can be and the ability and capability of

1:11.7

enjoying the consistent everyday persistent pursuit of your potential is so important.

1:18.5

And that's why people get confused because they attach their emotions, the outcome.

1:21.9

So they're constantly saying, I'll be happy when instead of for the sake of what.

1:26.6

Right.

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