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The Playbook With David Meltzer

You Are Not What You Do

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes transitioning careers can feel like a death. Athletes for example have two deaths, the first being when they retire. I help people with their transitions, whether it is finishing college or switching careers, these are the steps to successfully owning your transition. Let me know what transitions you have overcome or are currently trying to overcome by texting me at (949) 298-2905. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Because who you really are is dictated by literally genetics. It's in a coding.

0:05.2

Who you really are, your personality traits, characteristics,

0:07.9

obsessions, addictions, emotions are all dictated by a code.

0:12.5

And in order to get there, you literally

0:14.4

have to do this type of analysis.

0:16.5

This is entrepreneurs, the playbook.

0:19.6

I'm going to do two things today.

0:21.0

One, I am going to talk about career transition and I deal as a

0:28.1

consultant a lot with initially player transition,

0:32.8

mostly players who are done playing professionally,

0:37.2

but then college to pro-transition

0:40.1

and then military transition.

0:42.2

I was blessed to go to DC this year,

0:45.0

I guess it was last year now, to talk about career transition,

0:49.6

which is very, very similar.

0:51.8

The thing about transitioning, and I think it's most elevated in

0:55.6

sports is that an athlete suffers two deaths and this is why transitioning so difficult. And athlete, and I think military

1:08.0

as well, because a lot of the military guys, you're literally entire life is to be trained to do one thing.

1:17.0

Whether you're a professional athlete or in the military, you're completely trained.

1:21.0

Doctors, the exact same thing. A doctor is, my oldest brother. trained. hospitals and I'm like I can't do that. He said do me a favor get educated in

1:33.8

college. Don't be well trained like me. He was just well trained. Hurried through

1:38.0

college in three years went right to med school. Extremely well trained

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