This Question Either Breaks You or Makes You | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Self-improvement, Business, Education

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

You already know that our time on this earth is limited. If that doesn’t give you enough motivation to do the things you need to do, I have another question that might. I want you to get serious for a moment, watch the video, and reflect. Then, let’s get to work.

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0:00.0	Will you ever live? You're going to die one day. Yeah. Aren't you motivated? Yeah. It's super motivating, right? Here's the question. Will you ever live? Because most of us, you have not lived until you stood on the edge and had no idea what was going to happen next. All the joy, all the fun, and all the
0:24.9	growth, guess what? It's from stumbling and falling and losing and learning and becoming mature
0:33.6	and figuring out that you at 23 have nothing but streets of gold in front of you.
0:40.3	And the question is, are you going to play it safe?
0:43.3	Do you think God in her infinite wisdom said when you were born,
0:48.3	you are a child of mine. Go be an amateur real estate agent.
0:53.3	Or do you think there was a chance
0:55.7	that when you came out and after you got slapped,
0:59.1	there was a moment where you...
1:00.9	And for the first time, you were fully alive.
1:04.6	And a lot of people shrunk from there.
1:08.5	I'm just asking you, man.

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