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The Playbook With David Meltzer

You Should Never Quit on Yourself

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Quitting is when you give up on yourself and your capabilities. Keep enjoying the consistent everyday, persistent without quit, pursuit of your potential. Tweet me your takeaway from today’s episode @davidmeltzer Email Me! [email protected] Sign up for my Free Weekly Training https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training-1 Text Me! (949) 298-2905 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

When we're at 50% we are so close to 100% it's just one more doubling and when

0:05.4

you're at 100% you're so close to 200% and the faster you can accelerate the

0:10.7

faster that will work. What if it's three times? This is the labor. The key to being

0:17.5

a business is a staying business. You've got to stick to it. You've got to enjoy

0:20.4

the consistent, persistent pursuit of your potential. Here's what happens though.

0:23.4

20-year-old calls me once a drop out of Harvard. It's a lot of pressure. Right?

0:28.2

Because I know what kind of parental expectations are on them. So I'll tell them

0:32.3

look you're going to drop out. That's fine. It's a bit you got to promise me you

0:35.6

got to stick to this because if you're not going to stick to this is what's

0:37.8

going to happen. You're going to be 30 years old. You're going to be 25% of the

0:41.2

way there. You're 25% of the way you think you are going to be and you're going

0:46.3

to quit like 99% of the other people on earth. You're going to quit because you

0:49.8

don't understand acceleration and growth and working well. And here's what's

0:53.2

sad. If you would last another five years at 35 there'd be even more pressure on

0:58.1

you. All your friends would call you a loser. Your parents would be more

1:00.8

disappointed in you and anything else in the world. All the people at Harvard would

1:04.2

say that's why you're supposed to stay here. Blabble, blah, blah, blah, blah. At 35

1:09.0

result you're 50% of the way there. But most people, the 99% of the 1% quit,

1:15.3

that leaves the 1% of the 1%. And now Mr. Harvard drop out two and a half years

1:21.5

later, at 37 and a half, you're 100% away there. Now you're lucky. Harvard is

1:27.5

inviting you back to speak. They're climbing onto you. All the people that

1:32.5

smirk laughed at you. Now are applauding you. But most people don't give it the

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