Dan Martell - September 02, 2024


The fear of maintaining success

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Dan Martell
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Episode Stats


Length

34 seconds

Words per minute

290.32

Word count

165

Sentence count

12


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about why people are scared of success and how to overcome fear of success. I also talk about how to deal with the fear of failure and why you should not be scared of failure.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 The reason that people are scared of success is that they have a higher point to fall from now.
00:00:04.140 It's like if you lose weight.
00:00:05.480 Most people don't even want to lose weight because if they put it back on, then they fail.
00:00:08.860 So it's easier to just maintain what they got.
00:00:11.560 What's funny is the language they use.
00:00:12.780 They actually like poo-poo it.
00:00:13.780 It's not about this stuff.
00:00:14.940 You know, it's like, I'm not a car guy.
00:00:16.260 I hear all this stuff.
00:00:17.240 No, it's actually a lot of fun driving around in a fun car.
00:00:19.680 So don't say you're not a car guy.
00:00:21.140 You're telling yourself these stories so you don't have to attain because if you do,
00:00:24.380 then you're going to have to ask yourself, what's this new level of responsibility?
00:00:26.880 It's when I got up the mountain and I was halfway and I had something to lose now
00:00:30.460 I started getting scared and acting out of, you know, trying to protect