Short monologue (YouTube) in which the speaker argues that sales is a form of leadership, emphasizing personal motivation, the difficulty and responsibility of leading, and the need to do hard conversations to help others make their best decisions. The speaker frames sales success as driven by both personal reasons and service to the customer.
So, like, that was my motivation. If I ever, like, got in my head as far as, like, oh, I don't have the energy for this call, or the best salesperson on the planet with, you know, I mean, like, that's what got me going. So you got to find, like, what gets you going, like, why do you want to be good at this? So there's the personal, but then it's also for the other person, because we're talking about, like, at the end of the day, like, sales is leadership. Leadership is glamorous. Leadership is hard. The person who's at the front, like, that is a hard position to be in because you have to do things that nobody else does. You have to do the hard things. So. So I have to be the person who leads, has this conversation with this person that nobody else in their entire life has ever been able to have a conversation with to get them to actually make the best decision for themselves. And that is hard. But am I the type of person who is going to be a good leader?