Dan Martell identifies five time assassins, the addiction-like habits that kill productivity. His Wall Street Journal bestseller Buy Back Your Time explores how successful entrepreneurs channel these compulsions into their businesses instead.
some of the most successful entrepreneurs have like addiction tendencies, but they found a way to like gear it towards like business, like you did with like software. I don't know, have you noticed that or am I just drawing unfair conclusions?
I love that you brought it up and I don't know if you're like cueing this up for me, but chapter 3 is the 5 Time Assassins. So this is my book, Buy Back Your Time, Wall Street Journal bestseller.
We can unpack that. All the authors, 5 Time Assassins.
I open it up by talking about some research around chaos. What it turns out is that most entrepreneurs went through some difficulty between the ages of 9 to 13 years old. And the reason why is because they learned at a young age to deal with a disproportionate amount of uncertainty. So it turns out if you have the skillset of being able to deal with a large amount of uncertainty, that entrepreneurship fits you really well because that's the name of the game, right? Paychecks aren't guaranteed, customers aren't guaranteed, the future's not guaranteed. And for CEOs and founders That's super normal. If anything, and that's what I talk about in the book, we create chaos when things are normal. So, I call those hand grenades. And as it pertains to your time and productivity, a lot of us create these time assassins that are self-imposed. They're not inflicted upon us. We inflict them upon ourselves and create emotional shrapnel around it. So, 100%, most CEOs have gone through dyslexia, addiction, trauma, abuse, et cetera, at a young age because it shaped them to be somebody who can deal with chaos, who can deal with uncertainty.