Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Here's something you don't want to hear.
Chapter 2: How do the Wright Brothers exemplify the importance of action?
So I'm going to give you a hug while I say this. You think way more than you do.
Chapter 3: What is the One Week Method and how can it maximize productivity?
And that's the problem.
Chapter 4: Why is discipline considered a design problem?
While you're thinking about the plan, the progress, I don't know, your next steps, a bunch of people less smart than you are just out there doing the thing. And I know that's tough, but you're lying to yourself. You've mistaken preparation for progress.
Chapter 5: What lessons can we learn from James Dyson's 5,127 prototypes?
By the way, lots of us do this. And somewhere between your third productivity app and your 14th motivational podcast, not this one, you've realized that you've thought way more about the thing than done the thing you know you need to do. to do.
Chapter 6: What are the consequences of waiting and procrastination?
Procrastination can get way more attention because it's more insidious than scrolling TikTok. It's color coding notion boards. It's attending the conference to get inspired.
Chapter 7: How does the DOER framework help in achieving goals?
If all you do is plan, reality never gets a chance to reject you or help you win. And believe it or not, that is actually your loss. And history is full of brilliant thinkers that nobody remembers.
Chapter 8: How can shame impact our willingness to take action?
Who do people actually remember? People who got their hands dirty and made peace with looking stupid in public. I'm Cody Sanchez. This is The Big Deal Podcast. And today, we're going to do the damned thing and not just talk about it. So let's go.
Before we get into it, if you're new here, the Big Deal Pod is for people who are done talking about what they're going to do and actually want to get it done. And if that's you or if that's who you want to become, hit subscribe. It helps us book the right guests, bring you the type of practical, tactical tips to actually achieve greatness in your life.
And to those of you who have already subscribed already, high five. Thank you. You're my people. Now, let's get back to history's greatest founders. I want to talk about the Wright brothers. So known around the world for inventing the world's first successful plane, right? 1903 or something. But maybe what you don't know, they had a competitor, like a serious one. Samuel Langley had all the coin.
He had all the money, the headlines. He had the Smithsonian behind him. And back then, the Smithsonian behind you was a big deal. The professional credibility he had was, it was for years and days. The Wright brothers, they had a bicycle shop, a homemade wind tunnel, and a tolerance for crashing. They just like built, tested, crashed, built, tested, crashed.
Every failure, though, it gave them data, right? And that's what eventually gave them the edge. So Langley, he liked to pontificate, you know? He was refined. He was waiting for the perfect public moment. Well, that was one big launch. And guess what happened at the launch? It crashed. And that was it.
So he was done because he ran fewer experiments and he relied on this one big thing, which when it failed, crashed everything. The Wright brothers, what did they do right? It's simple. The Wright brothers won because they were doers. Samuel Langley, he was just thinking. spending years before he ever seriously tested anything in the real world.
And I think this law of getting ahead is that action creates data. And action actually compounds, I've found, in three ways. First, the more you move, the more clarity you get. You stop guessing and reality kind of tells you what's up. It tells you what's true. Second, action builds confidence. So that comes from just seeing yourself actually be a person who keeps your word.
Third, it brings credibility. People do not trust your intentions. They trust your receipts. What have you done? A great example of this, James Dyson, the founder of Dyson Vacuum. He didn't actually think his way into a category-defining product. Vacuums didn't exist like this. The Dyson Vacuum, he built prototype after prototype after prototype. How many?
The lore goes 5,127 of them before his bagless vacuum finally broke through because he understood what every great doer gets. Failed attempts are a form of tuition. You just got to pay it if you want to become great. So frequently doing will train your brain to get more done in one week than most people can get it done in 12 months. So how do you actually move? I call it the one week method.
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