Episode 34: The Journey From Failing To Success

The Epic Agent Success Podcast

In this episode, Jerry and Jacobe will talk about failure and success. Jerry says a lot of people's perceptions are that those who experience great success are just super gifted but, if you start breaking down the successful people that we see, that is not the whole picture. Prepare to be motivated and tune in for the discussion!

Episode Highlights:

• Jacobe talks about the career highlights of Hidilyn Diaz, the filipina weightlifter in the Olympics. He shares that his perspective used to be that people who were the best at things were just born with greatness.
• In his book Be Obsessed or Be Average, Grant Cardone has mentioned that 80% of all millionaires are first-generation. It means that – "if I were to become a millionaire, my parents were not millionaires, so I am the first generation in my family to become a millionaire."
• Do you have to be obsessed with something to be good at it? Desire is the thing that is going to keep you going. That is what will help you endure all of the hardship and all of the pain to get to where you are at.
• From baseball Reggie Jackson over 2500 strikeouts, Jim Thome, Adam Dunn, and Sammy Sosa, these guys were considered great hitters, and they all lead the record books in strikeouts. So, you have to fail to succeed. You can't go up there afraid to strike out.
• There is another book by Robert Greene, called Mastery talks, about Charles Darwin and it is mentioned that Charles Darwin says, "People have talent, but a lot of times people with less talent end up doing more than people who have more talent."
• Charles Darwin says he had 8 years where he called it drudgery. Basically, it was boring, but in that time, he developed his skills to become a really good biologist, which led to his later mastery in life. Charles quoted, "The core of intensity of effort is, in fact, a quality that is genetic and inborn, not talent or brilliance".
• Your plan is limited to what you think, so your plan is maybe a lot smaller than your potential. You're not going to grow inside your comfort zone, says Jerry.
• Jacobe says he has learned so much about the failure thing through his kids. They have to fall down to figure out what their balance is. The only way to learn what to do is partly learning what not to do, and that is essentially how we all learn.
• Jacobe talks about COVID and how a lot of us got beat during that. What do we learn from that, and how do we move forward?
• We put too much emphasis on failure. Failure doesn't have as much power as we give it.
• Jacobe suggests, "You can either be fearful or excited about the future, and you can create either outcome in your head, so why not default to the good outcome rather than the fearful and bad outcome."
• Does being anxious prove that you care about something? What do you think about developing the tools for what will be needed next?
• Jacobe always tries to encourage people around him to have good folks around them because you can control a lot of things with your environment and outlook.
• Jerry says, "You don't need to read the book to gain some of the tools to come up with your life plan or a plan many times." "I think I have been guilty of having a really good plan when it comes to my business, especially like sales, but not really having a good plan for the other aspects of my life. I have broken down nine areas of my life that I want to work on a specific plan. I started outlining what I want. I am literally right in the middle of what I would call the heavy lifting for developing a plan for each one of these areas of my life."

3 Key Points:

1. In order to be the best, you are going to have to fail more than anyone else. Fear of failing will keep you from becoming what you want to become.
2. Failure is actually a gift. The question is, how do you respond to failure? What do you do when that happens? What do you actually want?
3. When you fail, what questions do you ask yourself? Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan are often considered two of the best basketball players ever. A key point to note about them is that they did not start out that way. They failed their way to success, and they used that failure to drive them to be the best.

Resources Mentioned:

• Jacobe Kendrick Facebook| LinkedIn | Instagram |YouTube|
• Jerry Weaver Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram|
• Success Without Sacrifice Facebook page
• BJJ Realtor YouTube
• https://store.grantcardone.com/products/be-obsessed-or-be-average
• https://www.amazon.com/s?k=authur+robert+greene
• https://www.amazon.com/Living-Forward-Proven-Plan-Drifting/
• https://www.youtube.com/Kobe Bryant on Valuetainment