Larry WeidelMentor and Coach Empowering Million Dollar Earners

What No One Tells You About Being An Overnight Success

13 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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A short motivational monologue by Larry Weidel about why people "get in their own way" when building businesses or communities. The speaker identifies common psychological barriers — rapid comparison to others, fear, and confusion — and contrasts them with traits of the most successful people, who embrace uncertainty, risk-taking, curiosity, and enjoyment of discovery rather than perfectionism or avoidance.

One of the things that I've seen teaching community design and people magic profit to so many people over the years, and also just having a front row seat to the most successful multimillion dollar businesses on Mighty is just how quickly people get in their own way. They are too quick to comparison, too quick to fear, too quick to oh, everybody's saying succeeding and I'm failing. Too quick to confusion. Oh, I don't actually know what I'm doing. And what I have observed in terms of the people who have been the most successful, they embrace the unknown with joy and curiosity. Not a sense of perfection or not trying to find reasons that it won't work, but enjoying the moment and the act of discovery and the act of risk taking. Because most of the things are not actually risks.