The ugly truth about becoming great
Yesterday, I told you about Jerry Seinfeld’s belief that there is no writer’s block.
There is only lazy. And there is scared.
Seinfeld is a joke writer. He writes at least one joke every single day. If he misses a day? He keeps right on going.
He never misses two days in a row, however, and has been at this routine for decades.
The man is obscenely wealthy, but his advice to anyone wanting to make a mark is brutally humbling:
Learn to accept your mediocrity. No one’s really that great.
You know who’s great?
The people that just put a tremendous amount of hours into it.
It is a game of tonnage.
You must put in the unglamorous reps.
As a kid, that meant shooting endless free throws and taking extra batting practice. In my twenties, it meant structuring my entire life around mastering the river with a fly rod. I reached a level of mastery most guys only dream of… purely because I put in the tonnage.
Lately? I have put the tonnage into building businesses in and around the Silicon Valley “salt mines.”
Some exploded with profit. Some failed miserably. I call the failures “Making Kimchi.”
The process stinks, but it ferments into something useful. You learn. You get better.
But here is the truth about business:
You do not need to stink up your own kitchen or waste years making rookie mistakes. I already put in the tonnage. I already made the kimchi.
If you are ready to stop playing games and fast-track your empire, I have the blueprint.
Book a Domination Consult. Bring your $297 and your toughest bottlenecks. We will strip away the nonsense and map out your path to victory.
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https://calendly.com/bdoleary77/domination
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