You’re Looking at Growth the Wrong Way
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
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🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here's what happens. I'll use Derek as an example. |
| 0:04.0 | Derek starts work at 25 and he's 40 years old. |
| 0:09.2 | At 40 years old, he's 25% of the way to his capacity, his potential. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's the problem with that. |
| 0:19.8 | We graduate college, law school, graduate school, |
| 0:22.1 | 25 years old, we're willing to go and |
| 0:24.8 | 15 years goes by we're married with three kids we have a house we have payments we may |
| 0:31.0 | have lost money gain money definitely been screwed over, all types of different things |
| 0:35.3 | have happened in our life, and at 40 years old at only 25% of your capacity, you're thinking, |
| 0:41.6 | shit, my life's a waste I'm only 25% of the way there |
| 0:47.6 | Right, I'm 40 years old. I'm married with kids. This is not what I dreamed about. |
| 0:54.9 | Well, that's because you're attached to an end. |
| 0:57.6 | Right, you're not enjoying the consistent persistent pursuit |
| 1:00.8 | of your potential and you don't understand math. |
| 1:03.4 | You don't understand acceleration and I started, I've been blessed to be around these billionaires and |
| 1:07.7 | I'm like with Tillman Fertita, I'm like he's 62 years old, how the heck do you make that much money? |
| 1:12.8 | Like how do you get to billions of dollars? |
| 1:16.0 | Through acceleration and exponential growth, |
| 1:18.3 | some people have higher factors too. |
| 1:21.3 | But there's plenty of people that are like Derek, right? 40 years old, attached to an |
| 1:26.0 | outcome sitting there going I'm in void shortages, obstacles, resistance, I'm not |
| 1:30.1 | where I want to do. Marriage isn't where I want to be, my kids aren't what they want to be, my job's not what I want to be my kids aren't what they want to be my jobs not what I |
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