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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Power of Loving What You Do

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I dive into the journey of cultivating mental toughness, emphasizing how loving the unlovable and embracing consistency can unlock our deepest potential. Through personal anecdotes and practical advice, I unravel the mysteries of the subconscious mind, illustrating how our daily actions and thoughts shape our destiny. I discuss the vital role of discipline in setting non-negotiables like sleep and health, arguing that these foundations lay the groundwork for success. Exploring the power of words and actions, I reveal how they forge our path forward, often in ways we least expect. Amidst these reflections, I share a personal revelation on the divine guidance that pain and setbacks offer, nudging us closer to our true essence and the universe’s boundless support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:14.8

If you do things every single day, you learn to love the things that you hate and you learn to love the things you don't love and you learn to love the things you don't like and you learn to love the things other people don't like, you learn to love the things other people don't love, and you do it every single day and you don't quit, even if it's two minutes a day, two minutes

0:20.6

of days worth way more than two hours on a Saturday.

0:24.4

If you do that every single day consistently, persistently without quit, in the pursuit of

0:30.0

what you want, not what other people want, not what other people think you want, not what you're missing, not

0:36.1

what you don't have, the void shortage is not difficult, but what you want, I promise you

0:40.6

one thing. If you do what other people don't do, it will tell you all its secrets.

0:47.0

I don't really believe that whole saying, you know, if you love what you do, it's gonna, you'll never work a day in your life.

0:55.0

Bull shit. I love what I do and it's hard sometimes.

1:00.0

The simple things are hard sometimes.

1:02.0

But I know one thing because my superpower of

1:04.4

mental toughness is I can do stuff every single day every single day and instead of

1:09.8

living in the extra mile I live in an empty mile an empty mile.

1:13.5

an empty mile is where nobody else is.

1:16.3

It's less competitive.

1:18.6

Why is it less competitive?

1:19.8

Because you have all the cheat codes.

1:21.2

It's told you all the secrets. I'm not very good at

1:24.2

Fort Knight. But if I had all the cheat codes of Fort Knight, I'd kick my son's

1:29.2

ass and all his friend's ass at Fort Knight. That's what I do in life. I'm looking for the secrets and it comes

1:36.0

from the consistent, persistent pursuit of your potential and being able to learn to love

1:41.7

the things you don't love.

1:43.7

And how do we do that?

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