Brendon Burchard was rejected by publishers before self-releasing The Motivation Manifesto, which hit the New York Times bestseller list and stayed there for six months. He argues the real win is staying in progress mode: chasing goals joyfully while becoming more of yourself along the way.
Six months.
And we put the book out there after they turned it down, after they hated it, after they took their money back, and it became an instant New York Times bestselling book. And the motivation manifesto goes to spend six months on the New York Times bestseller list. The books are about art. What I care about is did I grow as an artist doing my work? I want you to care about you growing as a person, as you're in progress mode. Because there's fundamentally two things in progress mode, right? You're moving towards goals at a direction and a speed and a clip that you are joyful and satisfied with. So it's like, towards something, but also summoning something that on your path to achieve more, you are becoming more. That's what I want you to care about.
