Dan Sullivan Quotes

No one can replicate you when you’re in the GAIN, because no one has the same experiences you’re having — and no one can transform your experiences into GAINS the way you do. You’ve already made it this far. Look back at where you were when you started. What are you going to do now? How far are you going to go? You get to decide that.

The rule is simple: the person who fails the most will win. If I fail more than you do, I will win. Because in order to keep failing, you’ve got to be good enough to keep playing.”12

Success means that you’re making bigger and better improvements that are valuable to others and satisfying to yourself. It means that you can’t think of anything you’d rather be doing than what you’re doing.

The British philosopher Alain de Botton said, “Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.

positive emotions are the starting point of learning, growth, and high performance.3

By seeing my son through the lens of the GAP, all I can see are his flaws. I don’t see him for who he truly is, right now. I don’t see his growth. I don’t see his progress.

I’ve discovered that when something very emotional happens to me, it stays with me until I’ve converted it into lessons.

Maybe he didn’t get the memo that God is in the GAIN, not the GAP.

Nothing happens until after you commit, and it’s only after you commit that you know what freedom feels like. As the popular saying goes, “Everything you want is on the opposite side of fear.”10

Practice mental subtraction to remind yourself of the GAINS in your life. Create a GAIN Tiny Habit Recipe for getting out of the GAP, such as the five-minute rule the women’s soccer coach used.

Even religion, which is supposed to bring people hope and healing, can be a reason people go into the GAP.

Everything in life happens FOR you, not TO you. Nothing can stop you so long as you transform every experience into a GAIN.

He even thought about his love for skating itself, and how much skating had done for him as a person.

In other words, the easiest way to get 2x growth is by going for 10x, because 10x forces you to stop almost everything you’re doing, which is ultimately a waste of time anyway.

You have an ideal in your mind, and you’re measuring yourself against your ideal, rather than against the actual progress you’ve made. This is why you’re unhappy with what you’ve done, and it’s probably why you’re unhappy with everything in your life.