Richmond DinhCreator & Founder of Tiny Challenges™

All Of Us Are Graduates of the School of Life

20 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief motivational monologue, Richmond Dinh frames personal development as a daily graduation: each day you become a newer, more qualified version of yourself compared to yesterday. He argues that to coach, mentor, or launch a business, you only need to be one chapter ahead of the person you’re helping, not twenty chapters ahead. Consequently, he warns against comparing your early-stage progress (chapter one) to someone else’s advanced stage (chapter twenty), emphasizing that there will always be individuals further behind who can view you as a model for advancement. The core message is to focus on incremental growth, recognize your current qualifications, and avoid unhealthy comparisons.

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Every day, you are graduating from the person that you were yesterday. What does this mean? It means that you are qualified to the person you were yesterday. So if you're becoming a coach or an expert, an entrepreneur, and you're thinking, I'm not qualified to help that person, yes, you are. If you graduated from the person you were yesterday, you only need to be one chapter ahead of the person you're coaching. And so you don't need to be 20 chapters ahead. Never compare your chapter one to someone else's chapter 20, because there's always going to be someone behind you that's further behind and can see you as a pathway to getting out every day. Graduate from the person you were yesterday.