American Checklist

There’s nothing inherently wrong with loving to come out on top. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Mark Young talk about how your winning doesn’t mean that someone else is losing—and why losing doesn’t have to be a bad thing. How you win: The winning mindset is that you love coming out on top and coming out ahead in new ways. Might as well: Oftentimes, you've obligated yourself to show up and perform, and you might as well win if you're going through the effort. Lessons through failures: See failures as things you did, not as who you are. Consider what lessons you can take from each failure. Not equal: Even when other people my age had more than I did, I never blamed other people, or society as a whole. Useful disruption: Everything that's useful in the world should be disruptive when you first hear it. It should throw you slightly off balance. Win or lose: If you don't put yourself in a position where you’ll either win or lose, that means you're living a kind of ignorant life because you're not getting the p