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🗓️ 19 June 2025
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Darren Hardy unearths a surprising lesson from a centuries-old military process that still lingers today. It’s a perfect metaphor for what could be draining your time, resources, and energy without you even noticing. Get ready to question everything and change how you see your systems.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day. |
0:07.4 | Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy. |
0:13.4 | Why do you do what you do that way? |
0:17.2 | Have you asked yourself that question, or do you just keep doing things as you've always done? |
0:21.7 | Because, well, hey, that's the way you've always done it. |
0:24.9 | That can become wildly inefficient. |
0:28.3 | Chances are, the world has progressed, but you still might be working like it's 1999, or sooner. |
0:35.0 | Here's an example from something I just read. |
0:37.3 | According to the detailed military operations |
0:39.7 | manual, it is required that three men are needed to fire a cannon. One to hold the cannon, one to load |
0:46.0 | the ammunition, and the third one just stands there doing nothing. Why do you need that third person |
0:51.4 | at all? No one has stopped to ask why in a very long time. |
0:56.7 | Originally, the third man's job was to hold the horse so that it wasn't spooked by the sound of the cannon's explosion and run off. |
1:04.6 | At the time the manual was written, you had to have a horse pull a cannon to the top of the hill. |
1:09.9 | That meant that you also needed |
1:11.2 | someone to stand there and hold the reins so the horse couldn't run away when the other two |
1:15.9 | started firing the big gun. This made total sense for maybe the first two centuries or so of |
1:21.9 | our military history. But do we still really need three soldiers to fire a cannon successfully? |
1:28.4 | Presumably, the person with no active role may have some ceremonial or backup value, but in |
1:34.9 | reality, it's a total waste of resources and your tax dollars. |
1:39.8 | So here's what I want you to think about today. |
1:42.0 | What are the cannon firing processes in your life or business operation? |
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