Malcolm KeithEntrepreneur at The Teen Mastermind

The perfect book to read for Thanksgiving...

Name: The perfect book to read for Thanksgiving...
Uploaded: 2024-11-16T02:19:47+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Malcolm Keith
Description: In this YouTube monologue, the speaker recommends The Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy as an ideal Thanksgiving read. The central…

16 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this YouTube monologue, the speaker recommends The Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy as an ideal Thanksgiving read. The central premise of the book is a mindset shift: evaluate personal progress by measuring from where you have been to where you are now (the "gain") rather than from your current state to unattainable ideals (the "gap"). This shift fosters gratitude. The speaker highlights that the book provides specific terminology—"gain" for past‑to‑present measurement that generates gratitude, and "gap" for present‑to‑ideal measurement that creates dissatisfaction. Recognizing when you are in the gap allows you to consciously move back into the gain, thereby cultivating a grateful outlook, which aligns with the Thanksgiving theme.

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Hey there! Thanksgiving is coming up, so I wanted to talk about another book I've been reading called The Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy. The main premise of The Gap and the Gain is to measure yourself from where you've been to where you are now, instead of how we usually measure from where we are right now to our ideals. When you make this shift in your thinking, what comes out of it is basically gratitude. One of my favorite things about this book is that it actually gives you terminology for those different measurements. You're in the gain when you're measuring from where you've been to where you are now and you're feeling grateful, but you're in the gap when you're measuring from where you are now to where your unreachable ideals are. And so the result of knowing that terminology is that whenever you're in the gap, you can recognize that and get out of the gap and go back into the gain.