Joe PolishFounder of Genius Network and President of Piranha Marketing

Sean Stephenson: Why You Are So Disappointed With Achievements!

8 Oct 2019 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a Sean Stephenson talk (recorded Oct 8, 2019) arguing that having compelling goals matters more than the literal achievement of those goals, because achievements often disappoint. He urges replacing envy with appreciation and gratitude, and links gratitude to resilience and confidence, using personal anecdotes (his appearance, wheelchair) to explain how perspective shapes influence.

I think it's more important that you.
Have a goal than that you achieve the goal.
Because achievement.
Is oftentimes disappointing. Raise your hand if you've ever done something and then when you did it, you were like, oh, that's all I got. But enough about marriage. No, so I love my wife.
When you focus.
On the goal, you have something to move toward. I can promise you right now, if you came to Genius Network and you're going through a miserable time, it's because you don't have compelling enough goals. Second is you gotta flip it upside down. Instead of having the.
Envies, you gotta have all that appreciation.
The opposite of envy is appreciation.
And gratitude.
Find me somebody who loves.
Everything that's.
Going on in their life, that wants to kill themselves. Find me somebody.
Who is like, oh.
I love my children, I love my.
Life, I love.
My connection to God, I love my dreams, I love my aunts, love my car.
Look, gratitude and misery don't hang out together. When you see me, a three foot.
Tall man in a wheelchair, and you're.
Thinking, how does he.
Have so much confidence?
Is it a joke?
Is it an act?
Is it a fake? No, it's because I believe I chose this container. I believe you wouldn't listen to me the way you do if I looked like you. Do you get that? If I looked like you, you couldn't hear me.