Dan Martell - Entrepreneurs are Addicted to Chaos

00:00:00.000 I remember one of my clients, he worked with me

00:00:01.740 and implemented a lot of the systems

00:00:03.360 and then was like, hey man, I'm taking a month off.

00:00:05.820 I'm going to Thailand.

00:00:07.100 Let's see how my team does.

00:00:08.520 Yeah, and I reply, I go, hand grenade?

00:00:10.920 When did I ever tell you taking a month off

00:00:13.500 from being the CEO of the business was a good idea?

00:00:16.240 When I speak to entrepreneurs back in the day,

00:00:18.060 I'd always ask everybody to close their eyes.

00:00:19.900 And I'd say, raise your hand if you ever went through

00:00:21.520 some chaos between the ages of like 11 and 14.

00:00:24.520 And 70% of the hands went up.

00:00:26.040 And what I discovered, it's not a prerequisite,

00:00:28.200 but it was high correlation.

00:00:29.320 if you grow up in a world where you had a lot of uncertainty a lot of chaos it actually prepared you

00:00:35.680 to be an entrepreneur because the definition of entrepreneurship is making decisions with

00:00:40.340 imperfect information but in a business once it gets going you've got team members and processes

00:00:46.900 and structure that same approach will literally be the achilles heel to you growing because when

00:00:52.020 things start to go you want to throw a hand grenade in your business you go like hey everything's good

00:00:57.660 Let's start a new company.

00:00:58.880 Let's change our offer.

Dan Martell - February 06, 2024