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"Why You SHOULD Be A Workaholic" - Brian Tracy

Name: "Why You SHOULD Be A Workaholic" - Brian Tracy
Uploaded: 2025-09-17T20:59:10+00:00
Duration: 49 s
Channel: John Wetmore
Description: In this brief motivational segment, Speaker A argues that adopting a "workaholic" mindset—starting earlier, working harder, and staying later—is…

17 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief motivational segment, Speaker A argues that adopting a "workaholic" mindset—starting earlier, working harder, and staying later—is essential for achieving success. He dismisses advice about work‑life balance and relaxation as "loser talk" that belongs only after one has "made it," emphasizing that before success one is in fierce competition with countless others, likened to the Olympics, and must outwork, out‑think, and out‑perform them. Speaker B concurs, noting that hard work and consistency are common traits among successful individuals, presenting the principle as a simple, universal formula for everyday people to achieve bigger goals. The overall message is a forceful endorsement of relentless effort as the primary driver of success, with balance deferred until after achievement.

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Develop a workaholic mentality. What does this mean? It means that you start a little earlier, you work a little harder, and you stay a little later. All these people talking about take it easy, have balance in your life, relax, lean back, have fun at work, happy happy, get along with your co-workers— this is loser talk. Loser, loser, loser. Now there's a time in your life when you can back off, all right? You can take it easy, but that's when you've made it, not before you've made it. Because before you've made it, you're in a competition with hundreds of thousands of millions of other people, like at the Olympics, who also want make it. And in order for you to win, you are going to have to work harder and work better and work smarter than they do.
I think the messaging about working hard and consistency seems to be true with most every successful person I follow. Pretty simple principle for an everyday Joe to go out there and do bigger things, because the competition isn't really that hard when you keep it that simple.