Stephen Bartlett

As soon as I did that, my revenue started slowing down in its growth. Why did you? Because I was ADD. I was like, oh, Mike, I don't want to leave money on the table. And I want to be so violent about this. You are always going to leave money on the table. That is the result of focus.

But you're leaving a small amount of money on the table to pursue the much larger money that's on another table of just sticking with the thing that you're on right now.

But you're leaving a small amount of money on the table to pursue the much larger money that's on another table of just sticking with the thing that you're on right now.

But you're leaving a small amount of money on the table to pursue the much larger money that's on another table of just sticking with the thing that you're on right now.

Because compounding, if I were to show a chart here, it's like if you're at year three of your thing and you want to think about moving to year zero of a new thing, you have to compare maybe year zero of a new thing grows faster, right? but it has to grow faster than year three to four of the thing that you're on right now.

Because compounding, if I were to show a chart here, it's like if you're at year three of your thing and you want to think about moving to year zero of a new thing, you have to compare maybe year zero of a new thing grows faster, right? but it has to grow faster than year three to four of the thing that you're on right now.

Because compounding, if I were to show a chart here, it's like if you're at year three of your thing and you want to think about moving to year zero of a new thing, you have to compare maybe year zero of a new thing grows faster, right? but it has to grow faster than year three to four of the thing that you're on right now.

And I think that's the, people will compare year zero to year zero, but not year four to year zero. And the thing is, is you actually, we have a linear life. And so we, that is, it's an unfair but true comparison of the opportunity cost. And every exceptionally successful entrepreneur that I know has just stuck with one thing for such an inordinate amount of time. And I think there's a quote by-

And I think that's the, people will compare year zero to year zero, but not year four to year zero. And the thing is, is you actually, we have a linear life. And so we, that is, it's an unfair but true comparison of the opportunity cost. And every exceptionally successful entrepreneur that I know has just stuck with one thing for such an inordinate amount of time. And I think there's a quote by-

And I think that's the, people will compare year zero to year zero, but not year four to year zero. And the thing is, is you actually, we have a linear life. And so we, that is, it's an unfair but true comparison of the opportunity cost. And every exceptionally successful entrepreneur that I know has just stuck with one thing for such an inordinate amount of time. And I think there's a quote by-

I want to say Shane Parrish. But he said, success is doing the obvious thing for an extraordinary period of time without believing that you're smarter than you are. And it's just like, we know what we need to do. And So we don't need to make our lives more complex. Complexity will come with scale, I promise.

I want to say Shane Parrish. But he said, success is doing the obvious thing for an extraordinary period of time without believing that you're smarter than you are. And it's just like, we know what we need to do. And So we don't need to make our lives more complex. Complexity will come with scale, I promise.

I want to say Shane Parrish. But he said, success is doing the obvious thing for an extraordinary period of time without believing that you're smarter than you are. And it's just like, we know what we need to do. And So we don't need to make our lives more complex. Complexity will come with scale, I promise.

And so just simply trying to do more of what you're already doing well is already hard enough. Don't add anything else. And so like, if you need to write some sort of commitment of like, I'm just going to stick with this, then do that. But what happens is when we were talking about the levels earlier about like beating the bosses, right?

And so just simply trying to do more of what you're already doing well is already hard enough. Don't add anything else. And so like, if you need to write some sort of commitment of like, I'm just going to stick with this, then do that. But what happens is when we were talking about the levels earlier about like beating the bosses, right?

And so just simply trying to do more of what you're already doing well is already hard enough. Don't add anything else. And so like, if you need to write some sort of commitment of like, I'm just going to stick with this, then do that. But what happens is when we were talking about the levels earlier about like beating the bosses, right?

So what happens is, you know how to beat boss one through three of the game. And so then you just say, okay, well, I'm just going to start the game over and beat boss. I mean, this time it's going to be different. But then you just get to level three again, and then you're stuck again.

So what happens is, you know how to beat boss one through three of the game. And so then you just say, okay, well, I'm just going to start the game over and beat boss. I mean, this time it's going to be different. But then you just get to level three again, and then you're stuck again.

So what happens is, you know how to beat boss one through three of the game. And so then you just say, okay, well, I'm just going to start the game over and beat boss. I mean, this time it's going to be different. But then you just get to level three again, and then you're stuck again.

And so people just keep getting up to level three and new endeavors over and over again because they never learned how to get past that boss. And so you just have to confront the uncertainty of knowing that you don't know how to do it, but that you will figure it out if you keep doing enough repetitions. And that's where you talk to as many people as you can.