Manche hassen ihr aktuelles Leben nicht genug für Veränderung

0:00I hated my current existence. And so I think some people like don't hate their current existence enough. And so like I don't think you know like you either have to really believe that these things are going to happen or you have to know that your life sucks. And I knew that my life sucked. And so I knew that if I did something else it would have it would have a higher likelihood of changing my life than not doing something. And at least that's how I would say that I probably saw it in the beginning. It's like I didn't know if it was going to work but I knew that I wasn't going to stop.

0:29I read a I had a quote some 10 years ago which just came to mind when you said that on some YouTube family vlog where he said change happens when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of making a change. And in your situation now it sounds like well this is less painful. 100% I think and I think that's the basis of of most change. Either you have to have a reward that is that that incentivizes you it's the way towards or away. It's either we're going away from pain or going towards pleasure. And I think a lot of people are really looking for that passion that's going to be towards but I think early days and I talk a lot about this but like I think negative motivation is poo-pooed too much.

1:05Like if you are angry use it. If you are sad use it. Cuz like what else you going to do with it? Like you might as well let it help you. Like or it uses you. You know what I mean? And so I always like to see when I was in my earlier days I felt like I was wielding my anger at least in a direction. And I think also a lot of people think that they have to get like it right on the first shot.

1:31But one of the beliefs that I had was that I just want to be directionally correct. Like if I move I like I know that I don't like this. And so this way is not where I am. And so I will start taking steps this way. And from the story that you at least heard it's like I'll ping pong a little bit to try and directionally move that way. And it's funny cuz Caleb's seen plenty of things from what we do at acquisition.com where like we'll try it out. And if it doesn't work then we're like oops. >> [laughter]

1:58>> All good. Do you believe in yourself? I think that I have a high likelihood of repeating activities that I've done in the past. And up to this point, I have lots of evidence that would suggest that it that I will continue. Why didn't you say yes? Um because I based the answer on that question on what I've done before. And I think it's been it's just based on evidence now. So, it's it's not like a like a charisma thing, at least for me. It's just like I've done these things, and so I think it's probable that I'll be able to continue.

2:32Is there a deeper reason to why you didn't just say yes? That's actually how I think about it. Is that because it's feels difficult to say you believe in yourself? Yeah, it feels weird. I don't know if hokey is the right word um for what that feels like for me, but like saying the way that I said it is how I is how I feel about it. Real quick, if you are business owner and you are not growing as fast as you'd like, I'd like to give you a free gift.

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