Dan Martell - August 09, 2024


Here's what it means to be a lighthouse and not a tugboat


Episode Stats


Length

38 seconds

Words per minute

265.4321

Word count

172

Sentence count

10


Summary

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I have this philosophy of being the lighthouse, not the tugboat. I go out into the harbor and I bump into ships to try to get them aligned and in the right path. It takes a lot of effort and energy, but it doesn t take any more effort for the lighthouse to shine its light to help one ship or a thousand ships.

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00:00:00.000 I have this philosophy of being the lighthouse, not the tugboat.
00:00:02.220 Ah, talk about that.
00:00:03.500 What does that mean?
00:00:04.320 The lighthouse is this philosophy that most people are tugboats.
00:00:07.960 They see somebody in their life doing something wrong and they run out and they tell them.
00:00:11.100 The challenge with that is it takes a lot of effort and energy.
00:00:13.300 If I'm a tugboat and I got to go out into the harbor and I got to bump into ships to
00:00:16.560 try to get them aligned and in the right path, it's just a lot of effort.
00:00:19.540 If you think of the lighthouse, the lighthouse stands there, shines its light on the corner
00:00:23.780 and provides guidance for all these ships.
00:00:25.880 and it doesn't take any more effort for the lighthouse to shine its light to help one ship
00:00:30.220 or a thousand ships. So every time I catch myself wanting to call them out, I go back to social
00:00:35.580 media. I go back to giving to the people that want to hear it.