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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Thinking Bigger Than Your Limits

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I talk about the ways we unknowingly limit ourselves by assigning meaning to past failures, setbacks, and defining moments. I share why feeling stuck is often a sign of growth, how pain acts as a communicator instead of something to avoid, and why learning lessons is the key to finding resolution. I also break down the difference between intelligence and intuition in decision-making, including why gut feelings require patience and proper vetting instead of impulsive action. We also discuss giving with intention, building purpose-driven communities, mentorship, and the difference between discipline and devotion when it comes to money, time, business, and spirituality.

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0:00.0

So we were talking last night about, you know, thinking big.

0:03.7

Yeah.

0:03.9

And then when we think we got, we thought big enough, we realized we could think even bigger.

0:09.4

And if we talk about infinite Luke.

0:12.4

Yeah.

0:12.9

It's like how big could you actually imagine?

0:15.3

And I don't think we can.

0:16.5

And this brought me to a conversation I had where we're talking about small ball or there's a big ball.

0:21.8

Yeah.

0:22.2

Right?

0:22.6

And it's like, how do you know that you are stuck in a small ball?

0:27.5

You put yourself in a small ball world versus and there's this big ball that sitting right on the other side of that wall.

0:33.9

Yeah.

0:34.2

So I think a few things come to mind when we talk about playing too small. And one is understanding infinite is so big. It's beyond what you can imagine. I had someone asked me one time about my God. And I talk about your God, but my God, I explained it as infinitely abundant, unified in a system system of thought, omniscient, all-powerful,

0:57.4

all-knowing, loves me, protects me, promotes me more than my mom. And the person who asked me

1:03.3

said, and you know that your God that you just explained in the infinite realm has a God

1:10.1

even bigger than that. That's the whole idea of

1:13.4

infinite, right? So I think when we're thinking about playing small ball, for me, I get very

1:18.6

pragmatic. And I understand that at all times, I'm limiting myself. And the number one limitation,

1:26.0

whether it's business, personal, relationship, whatever it may be, is actually something I have complete control over, which is meaning.

1:34.6

You see, most people limit their self-image, their imagination by the meaning they give their past.

1:41.9

The failures, the mistakes, the setbacks, defining moments, historical

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