Dan Martell - November 08, 2023


No old problems. New problems only.

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Dan Martell
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Episode Stats


Length

35 seconds

Words per minute

271.35

Word count

161

Sentence count

1


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about the importance of creating new problems to solve old problems, and how to solve them in order to make them better. I also talk about how to make sure that the problems you are trying to solve are the ones you want to solve the most.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 i always tell my team new problems only i'm okay with problems but i want new problems
00:00:04.640 when somebody comes to me with a problem i teach this in the book the 131 rule what's the one
00:00:08.960 problem we're discussing right now what problem are we trying to solve then it's what are the three
00:00:12.560 viable options that you've actually researched and looked into to solve that problem and then
00:00:16.880 the last one is what is the thing that you're going to recommend to me out of those three that
00:00:20.560 you want to move forward then i take all that time back and then i go and i say how did that even
00:00:24.480 become a fire and then i spend time on the fire prevention i look at the standard operating
00:00:28.240 procedure i look at the rhythms in my company i look at the meeting cadences i go how can we
00:00:32.320 improve the process so that these moments never happen