Dan Martell - November 21, 2025


The Factor of Ten Problems


Episode Stats


Length

31 seconds

Words per minute

235.84906

Word count

125

Sentence count

8


Summary

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No million dollar business was ever built off $10 tasks. The whole point of growing anything is having to let go of stuff. If you can t deal with a $10 problem, you ll never be given a $100 problem.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 No million dollar business was ever built off $10 tasks.
00:00:02.880 Look, the whole point of growing anything
00:00:05.560 is having to let go of stuff.
00:00:07.900 We think of them as like factors of 10 problems.
00:00:10.740 If you can't deal with a $10 problem,
00:00:12.640 you'll never be given a $100 problem.
00:00:14.660 If you can't deal with a $100 problem,
00:00:16.260 there's no thousand, there's no 10,000,
00:00:17.800 there's no 100,000, there's no million.
00:00:19.080 Some people wanna be millionaires
00:00:20.100 and they can't let go of $10.
00:00:21.520 I have to force myself to just stay out of
00:00:23.940 a whole category of things because I need to trade up.
00:00:27.120 If you don't level up and trade better,
00:00:29.180 Then you're gonna be stuck doing $10 tasks for the rest of your life