Jonathan CroninREI Accelerator, Rei Accelerator · Multifamily Real Estate Investor & Coaching Leader

The Valley of Death: What Separates Successful Investors from the Rest

19 Mar 2025

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Jonathan Cronin and a co-speaker use a real estate loss story to argue that successful investors take full responsibility for both wins and losses. They call this willingness to own everything the difference between those who escape the Valley of Death and those who don't.

You are 100% responsible for your own success, and you are 100% responsible for.
Every single failure you have.
I had someone tell me when I had some major real.
Estate losses. I was really going through it.
I wanted to get out of the business.
And he was like.
Well, you're having a hard time right now. And I was like, yeah. And he's like, that's good.
Like, you should.
Be having a hard time. Everyone has hard times when they're going.
Through entrepreneurship, and you have to get yourself out of it.
And the only way to do that.
Is to take full responsibility for all of your actions that you do every day, because.
You'Re the only one that's.
Going to get yourself out of what I call the Valley of Death.