Richmond DinhCreator & Founder of Tiny Challenges™

Sometimes It Has to Break You to Build You

11 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A short spoken excerpt from Richmond Dinh arguing that personal crises can catalyze growth by pushing people into entrepreneurship and coaching. Dinh credits business ownership as the strongest personal-development program—forcing confrontation with rejection and persistent problems—and emphasizes the shaping effect of "proximity" (his phrase "the eighth wonder") i.e., who you spend time with, which he teaches clients to curate.

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You can't see how it's going to be a blessing in your life, and you can't see how it's happening for you at the time. But it happened for me because I wouldn't have discovered this whole coaching space and entrepreneurial space. It would have been the trigger for me to do what I wanted and figure out my life. If that didn't happen, if I was successful in property, I would have kept being an optometrist. I think I believe, and my first coach taught me this, I believe that the best personal development program you can ever do is actually getting into business. Like, you will learn more about yourself, being an entrepreneur than ever. Like, you know, like getting. Facing rejection, having to figure out problems, problems that never stop. This force that is stronger than gravity, it's called the eighth wonder. It's your proximity. It's who you're spending time with, period. And so that's what. That's what I teach my clients. Like who. Who's in your eighth one? That. Because that's the force that shapes everything.