I just wanted to let you know before I begin Todd Brison, I recently came onto you because of your post on Gary V. I follow him quite religiously because there are very few like him in this space. That being said, I started to see that you and I might have crossed similar mental paths at points, according to how this story is making me feel. I don’t necessarily have constructive feedback, I really just want to go on a bit of a rant. Below is a semi-comprehensive thought provoked by this piece.

First of all, I skipped most of the bold text at the beginning and went straight to the lies. I wanted to judge them. The first, of sleep, there was a deep and personal voice reminding me that I’ve never felt right about sleep. Yes, while sleep is important, watching 150 episodes of #AskGaryVee and thousands of hours of other “CEO/Guru” content online, I came to the conclusion that successful people never slept while building their success and realized it’s importance after the fact.

This meaning of course that they worked like mad fools to get the job done then, with all their money and support and staff took time to add a couple extra naps here and there and work much more efficiently now that there is less need to bootstrap. If you want to succeed, you’re going to need to take action.. Something that doesn’t happen while you’re sleeping.

This thought is pretty close to the idea of what lie #2 is all about. Like you said, “…they said “yes” to a truckload of things when nobody was paying attention.”.

And you’re 100% right, while they were awake, kicking butt and putting one foot in front of the other, one by one by one by one, building themselves, their brand and business.

I love how this is getting more and more obvious as time goes by. To get things done, you need to work at it, be awake, say yes to opportunities that fit your strategy, move forward. But then, these guys get some amount of success and start telling lie #3.

This is the one that pissed me off the most. I’ve been trying to tell people for a long time, under the proper context, that just because you “hustle” every day doesn’t mean shit for your right to success. I’ve heard and shared with people the long long long list of variables that successful people have unknowingly revealed which many of us either do not have access to, or they simply don’t exist anymore.

When print media was worth it, and the only option, you paid for it, got views, and gained success. Doesn’t work like that anymore. Oh wait, do you speak English? No, too bad because all of America does! ..But wait, you live in Canada? Ha, good luck then! There is not enough people in the world who do not speak English and live in Canada who don’t own smart phones to keep your business idea alive and rich.

There are certain variables that help you succeed to such a great capacity that they should be definitively linked to the word. Other variables are highly valuable, but negotiable, like start-up funds.

So yeah, it’s not possible to just cut and paste success. And people have to realize that if they don’t speak the right language, have no connections, are not charismatic, don’t have money, like to sleep more than work, don’t live in America and haven’t gone to University or are possibly ridiculously intelligent, their chances of achieving anything are obnoxiously low.

After I got angry about lie 3, I mostly skipped over the rest. I do agree however that flow is important to understand, but I think it goes deeper than just being in it.. It’s also about being able to work outside of it.