Dan Martell - August 03, 2023


Don’t Be a Nice Guy. Especially Not in Business


Episode Stats


Length

33 seconds

Words per minute

264.02835

Word count

149

Sentence count

8


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about the value of being fair, having boundaries, and holding people accountable. I don t want to be a pushover, and I don't want to just be a nice guy. I want to set standards, be fair, and be a good man.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I'm in business and you're like, hey man, can you give me a bro deal?
00:00:03.220 Yeah, no problem, man.
00:00:04.500 And I did that and look, it works.
00:00:06.140 The challenge was is that over time, I definitely ended up on the short end of the stick.
00:00:10.880 And probably about a decade ago, I was working with a mentor and I just got fed up because
00:00:14.580 I felt like I saw all these other people that started after me that were doing better than
00:00:19.160 me.
00:00:19.440 And it wasn't because they were bad people, but I think that they just asked for what
00:00:23.540 they thought they were worth.
00:00:24.760 I can still be a nice guy, but I want to be known as a good man.
00:00:27.660 I want to be known as somebody that's fair, that's got boundaries, that sets standards,
00:00:31.620 that holds people accountable.
00:00:32.860 I don't want to be a pushover.