A brief spoken excerpt from a YouTube video by Mark Evans DM asserting that individuals must self-appoint and take action without waiting for external permission or validation. Evans encourages listeners to lean into identities they claim for themselves (e.g., "deal maker"), build around them, and pursue projects proactively.
The only person that called me a deal maker is me. I called myself that first, right? And then that's. Now it's what I'm known as. So why aren't you the thing? And maybe you are, but, like, let's lean into it. Let's build around it. Let's talk about it. Let's create a book about it, for God's sake. Whatever we need to do, we have to appoint ourselves. No one's going to give you permission. No one's going to say, go do it. Like, we just have to do it.
