Willpower fails because you're trying to act against who you believe you are. The speaker uses Noah's ark to show that you need the identity of a builder before you can build, not just the vision. An employee can't become an entrepreneur through willpower alone if they still see themselves as an employee.
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Think about it. God gave Noah a vision for an ark. God gave Noah a vision. God gave Noah a mission to build an ark. God didn't build Noah an ark. God gave Noah a plan for an ark. But what if Noah didn't have the identity of a builder? What if Noah said, God, I can't build no ark. I do music, God. Like, notice how even this vision he got from God, it had— it— he had to have the identity to do the vision. If he didn't have the identity, he had some identity work to do before he could even carry out the vision from God. Like, I would imagine it wasn't Noah's first time building some stuff. I would imagine Noah already had the identity of, of builder, of craft— craftsman. A lot of times people trying to do entrepreneurship, but you don't got the— you got a, you got an employee identity trying to use willpower to do entrepreneur things. It's not gonna work. You got a loser identity trying to use willpower to do winner things. It's