Josh Terry Plays

You're not stuck. You're skipping steps. #SelfImprovement #personaldevelopmentjourney

It took me seven years to learn this but I'm going to teach you in less than a minute. The lesson other people teach isn't always the lesson you need to learn. You may have noticed winning CEOs talk about patience all the time. And successful sales guys say you need to help others if you want to make a sale. You also might find yourself being patient and helpful, getting terrible results, and wondering why. This is because the CEO started his career aggressive and demanding, and didn’t succeed until he learned the lesson of patience. He's excited to talk about patience because it was the lesson that unlocked his success. But it came from combining aggression with patience. The sales trainer was selfish when he was in his early twenties. He was so focused on making the sale that it turned people off. And he got results once he added helpful consideration of others. So now he feels like helping others is the solution. But it's not the full recipe. And if you're not aggressive, and you're a patient and helpful person, these aren't the lessons you need to learn. You need to learn to hold others to high standards, stand up for yourself, and fight for what's yours. You need to learn how to be a shark. The fact that a lesson helped one person doesn't mean it will always help you. Because sometimes you need to learn the opposite lesson. #neverstoplearning

It took me five years to learn this. And I'm going to teach it to you in less than a minute. The advice people give Is often the opposite of what you should do. For example, you may have heard that you should “try harder” to push yourself if you want to grow. That advice is for lazy people. And if you care about growth, then you’re not lazy, And you’re already trying as hard as you can, So the skill you need to learn isn’t effort. It’s restraint. If people keep telling you to try harder, and all you want is to do as much as you can, then you need to learn to set limits instead. Because you’re not them. And you don’t need their lesson. You need the opposite one.