Dan Martell - July 22, 2023


WHY You Do Things Will Change Your Life

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Dan Martell
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Episode Stats


Length

42 seconds

Words per minute

262.29

Word count

185

Sentence count

9


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about the importance of saying yes to the things you say yes to, and why you should avoid building companies that you grow to hate. I also talk about what I want to create in the world and why I think it s important to have a purpose in life.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Even why you do something can change the whole thing.
00:00:02.860 I could design something, but if I designed it
00:00:04.780 and I knew that the world was gonna throw it away
00:00:06.360 as soon as I'm done,
00:00:07.220 I'm not gonna be that enthusiastic about it.
00:00:09.200 But if I knew that that work was gonna be
00:00:10.760 on a commercial on TV seen by a hundred million people,
00:00:13.680 same time, same focus, same activity
00:00:15.600 is gonna feel so much better.
00:00:16.960 So the way I think about time is every day,
00:00:19.340 we all have the same amount and we choose what we do with it.
00:00:22.160 You can't build a million dollar company off $10 tasks.
00:00:24.880 There just physically isn't enough hours in a week
00:00:27.420 for you to do that.
00:00:28.400 And if you don't start looking at the things you say yes to, you'll wake up one day and you'll realize you spent a lot of time building something that you've grown to hate.
00:00:37.180 And I think that's the movement I want to create in the world.
00:00:39.360 I want to help entrepreneurs avoid building companies that they grow to hate.