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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Unlocking Happiness Through Persistence | VeeCon Visa Creator Stage

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In his keynote at the VeeCon Visa Creator Stage, David Meltzer emphasizes the importance of enjoying the consistent pursuit of potential, introducing the concepts of energy aggregation, market creation, and acceleration. He stresses the significance of good behavior leading to positive aggregation and success, and underscores the necessity of appreciating the process leading to results, warning against letting past experiences impede one's journey to success.

Transcript

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This is the flavor.

0:06.6

The topic or subject matter was enjoying the consistent, everyday, persistent without

0:12.8

quit pursuit of your potential.

0:15.2

And it may sound trite or obvious when you talk about enjoying consistent, persistent

0:22.3

pursuit of your potential, but I'll tell you, it's almost as layered as two words like

0:28.2

I am.

0:29.3

When I was in the 11th grade in AP English, my professor, you know, had Kirkgaard in existentialism.

0:34.9

He starts talking about I am and as a 17 year old, I'm like, yeah, I get it.

0:40.1

And I think a lot of people, when I say the key to happiness is to enjoy the consistent,

0:47.1

persistent pursuit of your potential, the younger you are, the more you get.

0:52.6

And the older you are, the less you get.

0:54.6

And so there's a lot of layers to this idea of happiness.

0:58.8

And I'll start with a friend of mine, Chris Gardner, who actually did the movie.

1:04.1

It's about him, the pursuit of happiness.

1:07.2

And the idea of happiness stemmed from the idea of attaching my emotions to an outcome

1:13.2

in this shift in a paradigm of how we're happy because there is no pursuit of happiness.

1:20.8

Happiness is the pursuit.

1:22.4

So that was the first layer of talking about enjoying the consistent, persistent pursuit

1:28.4

of your potential.

1:30.0

It wasn't happy, we're pursuing happiness.

1:32.5

It's how do I enjoy or be happy while I'm pursuing.

1:37.2

And there's a ton of scientific research about the biochemistry and bioanadomy of what

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