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0:00The single strongest predictor of my behavior is what will make the more epic story. I've thought about that frame a lot and it's still continued to win out. And so when I'm forced to [music] make a decision between two things, I prefer to choose the one that's the more epic story. Because either you have an epic story of failure or you have an epic story of success, but no 85-year-olds are regretting their epic stories. They are regretting the stories they never told. Our minds are meaning-making machines and they have to be because they create associations between things we know and things we don't know. That's how we learn. The problem is that our brains will make wrong associations and then they will plague us the rest of our lives, but we can just redefine what the association means for ourselves [music] to make our lives easy. Because whether you miss the game-winning shot when there's a huge crowd or you miss it when no one else is there, the only reason it hurts more is because you choose to let it hurt you more. Now, there are things that you can do prior to the game-winning shot that can increase the likelihood that you make it, which is that you practice way more in high-stakes conditions over and over and over again. If you do that, increases the likelihood of your confidence that you'll be able to make it. Why? Because you've made them before. And if you're like, "Well, I missed my first ever game-winning shot, now what do I do?"

0:59[music] Well, you practice in every other condition that's as close to that as you can until eventually you make one. And then when you do make one, you'll [music] have evidence that you've made one and you try to make one again. What you probably don't know is that Michael Jordan has missed more game-winning shots than he has made, but he's remembered for the ones that he made. But how was he able to make them? By missing and being willing to shoot again. On that basis of story, the many excuses that we give ourselves in reverse can make a more epic story. And so rather than say like, "These are all the reasons that I can't succeed," I think reframing that is, "These are all the reasons that when I succeed, it'll be even even better story and it'll be more inspiring to other people is a much more powerful frame. The more disadvantages you have when you start, the more epic story you have when you win. Real quick, if you're a business owner and you are not growing as fast as you'd like, I'd like to give you a free gift. So, my team and I put together the 100 million-dollar scaling road map, which is basically 200 hours of us looking over all the portfolio companies we've had and what stages of growth they went through and more importantly, where they got stuck and how they got past it.

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