Potential to Performance: Bigger Growth, Bigger Challenges

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. When we're learning something but we haven't tried anything yet, We're unlimited, right? What's our potential? Unlimited, we could do anything, right? And we could do no wrong, everything is right, every idea is brilliant, right? Don't most bad ideas start out as a good one? Right? Don't they? Like, wow, that was a really bad idea. Like, but before it was like, that was amazing, that was really good, right? And so in potential, you could do no wrong, you're a legend.

In performance though, there's a risk. And one of the things that I learned a long time ago was that the two toughest types of fears that you will deal with in your life. Number two is the fear of failure.

Number one is the fear of success. Well, wait a minute, if I knock this campaign out of the park, I'll be expected to do that every single time. If I get this one right, all of a sudden you're going to want to hold me accountable.

Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.