Short motivational/business monologue by Chase Fisher arguing the rarest and most valuable entrepreneurial trait is the disciplined ability to say no. He ties saying no to avoiding distractions (parties, alcohol, low-ROI opportunities), disciplined time use, and outsized progress, citing Benjamin Franklin on not squandering time.
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The rarest quality you can find in an entrepreneur is not like David Goggins level suffering ability. It's not grit, it's not discipline. It's not even what most people think of is actually rich. And the wild part is like so few people have it. And the ones who do are so wildly successful that you might not even know it's your greatest asset if you actually have it. But everybody who's actually built something real has it. It's not your backstory, it's not even why you got into this whole thing. It's the ability to say no. All these guys out here that have real money have had to say no to parties, alcohol, drugs, money, certain opportun things that didn't yield them the most return on investment, on their time. Benjamin Franklin said, do not squander time, for that is the thing life is made of. And if you have the ability to do this and be disciplined with your time, you all of a sudden can make twice as much progress as any other entrepreneur in just the same year. Because you do not squander time. You actually make a use of it. You can fake hustle, you can fake flex, you can fake motivation. But what you cannot fake is saying no over and over and over again to things that look amazing. It's the one thing that actually makes everything else work.