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November 21, 2025 42 mins

Joe Polish and Dan Sullivan unpack why Entrepreneurs stall when they treat growth as a transaction—and how commitment ("will that builds skill") creates transformational results. They cover lifelong learning, referability habits, and Dan's 100-books-in-100-quarters project as a model for creating the future through commitment.

Here's a glance at what you'll discover in this episode:

  • Transactional vs. transformational: why "provisional" commitments stall growth
  • Will ↔ Skill flywheel: commitment builds capability; capability strengthens commitment
  • Lifelong learning mindset: treat programs as investments, not costs
  • "Creative insurance": why Dan doesn't decide event-by-event—he decides for life
  • Handling dropouts: empathy without enabling; relationships over extraction
  • Referability Habits: show up on time; do what you say; finish what you start; say please & thank you
  • Recovery insight: rebuilding self-trust by keeping your own word

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