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The One Thing All Great Achievers Have in Common

DarrenDaily On-Demand

Darren Hardy LLC

Leadership, Teams, Success, Highachiever, Entrepreneurship, Darrendaily, Personaldevelopment, Darrenhardy, Business, Careers, Selfimprovement, Productivity

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Being practical sounds smart—until it crushes every bold dream you’ve ever had. Darren Hardy shares a powerful wake-up call about why reasonableness is the enemy of greatness. If you're playing it safe or surrounded by people who are... this may be exactly what you need to hear.

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0:00.0

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

0:07.3

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

0:13.6

This morning, I got a reason with you about something here.

0:17.9

You gotta stop being reasonable.

0:23.9

It's stunting you, and you you gotta stop hanging out with reasonable people. They're spoiling your dreams. This is, if you ever want to do anything,

0:29.9

unreasonable. No great achievement was ever reasonable. Not a one. It was incredibly unreasonable

0:37.1

for a newly elected president, the second

0:39.6

youngest in American history, who many called not just unqualified and inexperienced, but also naive

0:45.5

to claim that we could ever put a man on a moon before the decade was out. At the time that he said

0:52.5

at September 12th, 1962, he and all of NASA had no idea

0:57.6

how they would achieve that goal. It was totally unreasonable, and most everybody else thought

1:02.5

it was certainly unreasonable as well. A Gallup poll, in fact, indicated that 58% of Americans

1:09.0

were opposed to this idea and said that it would embarrass us

1:13.1

once again in front of the Russians. When another man shared his dream that one day,

1:18.5

sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners would one day sit down together

1:23.5

at the table of brotherhood, how incredibly unreasonable was it to have that dream?

1:29.3

And imagine how unreasonable it would be to dream that a few decades later,

1:34.3

one of his own brethren would sit behind a desk in the Oval Office.

1:39.3

For a guy who doesn't have a degree in astrophysics,

1:43.3

to say that he's going to start a space program and one day colonize Mars,

1:48.4

or take on Big Auto, or revolutionize the energy market, or build a hyperloop,

1:54.9

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

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