Dan Martell - Don’t Wish Your Problems Were Smaller

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In this episode of the podcast, we talk about how to deal with problems that seem like they should be solved, but aren't, and why you should be grateful you don't have them. We also talk about the benefits of having a lot of problems, and how you should hope to have more of them.

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00:00:00.000 remember oprah getting sued once for like a billion dollars from mad cow this is like back in the day

00:00:04.520 she said something on her show and pissed off the meat people she was getting sued and somebody 0.99

00:00:08.720 asked her aren't you like upset you're getting sued for a billion dollars and she's like i'm

00:00:12.560 actually kind of grateful that i'm the kind of person that could get sued for a billion dollars

00:00:16.340 yeah so like the problems that people are fearing having are actually high quality problems

00:00:22.800 considering you don't have any of those problems today because you don't have anything meaningful

00:00:27.280 going on in your life. So like to me, I actually want my problems to get bigger. I call them

00:00:32.460 factors of 10. When you start off, it's a $10 problem. My cell phone bill was an extra hundred

00:00:37.440 bucks. It's double what it should have been and it ruins their day. Or it's like a thousand

00:00:40.460 dollar problem. Like people should hope to have higher quality problems because it means their

00:00:44.900 business is in a different realm.

Dan Martell - May 21, 2023

Don’t Wish Your Problems Were Smaller

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