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Five-Pound Dream

Application in your life:

  • Whether you're afraid of it or not, your dream is contingent upon someone else having the courage to pursue his or her dream. And someone else's dream is contingent upon you pursuing yours.
  • We live in a culture of individualism that celebrates lone rangers, but even the Lone Ranger had Tonto. 
  • Your dreams will inspire many people, no doubt. But your dreams will also summon opposition. You are disrupting the status quo. Because of this, you will face a wide variety of reactions, including jealousy and anger.

Biggest Takeaway:

  • You have to be willing to pay the price to achieve your dream. Even though others will be jealous, angry, and weary of you-you must be able to pay the price to ever achieve your dream. The bigger your dream, the greater the investment of time, talent, and treasure it will take to accomplish it.

Quotes:

  1. You have to come to terms with the fact that you can please all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can't please all of the people all the time.
  2. A compliment from a fool is really an insult, and an insult from a fool is really a compliment. Make sure you consider the source.

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