"The Grit That Builds Success"

Everyone has ideas, but not everyone turns them into reality. The difference between dreamers and builders isn't talent—it's the willingness to push through frustration, develop grit, and keep moving even when the work isn't enjoyable. Success isn't just about having great ideas. It's about doing the hard things required to bring those ideas to life.

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What separates people who dream from people who build? Yeah, this is this is an interesting one. I think it uh you know it just takes a certain and I struggle with this a little bit, right? Because I think it just takes a certain amount of drive. But I don't know if you've ever heard of Patrick Lincioni. He wrote like Ideal Team Player, Working Genius, Working Genius, a bunch of other books too. But he has a working genius model. Um you might have actually known probably his best known book is Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Okay. He has a working genius model that talks about like what are you naturally good at and where do you go through? And uh the how does your brain just naturally work? And so he talks about five types of working genius of uh wonder why are things the way they are, um invention, create new things, discernment, is the idea a good idea or not, the galvanizer who energizes everybody behind an idea, the enabler who says, I'll help with that, I'll I'll do that, and the tenacity person, which is just like the person who loves checking things off and getting things done. And so what his belief is everyone has two types of working genius. This is just the way your naturally, your name brain naturally works. You can do it all day, every day, and never get tired of it, right? You have then your working competencies, which you can do for a little while, but eventually you're gonna get tired of. And then you have your working frustrations of what can you do? Well, like what are you gonna get frustrated on if you work in that type of thing very long at all? And this doesn't necessarily talk about what you're good at, it doesn't talk about your personality, it just talks about the way your brain naturally processes problems, right? And so the interesting thing is when you hear a lot of people talk about builders, they're gonna say, oh, that's a tenacity person. It's just gonna get in there and check the boxes and get it done, right? And the reality is like when I step back and look at myself, I am an inventor discerner. So I love inventing things and discerning. You could put me in a room all day, people bring me problems and say, How do we build a solution to for them? Or bring me, like, hey, I'm thinking about A or B. Do a like, how can we make that decision? I'll walk out of the room at the end of the day more energized than I started. That's just who I am. And everyone would be like, yeah, but okay, if you're just invention or you just wonder, those are the dreamers and they dream big and they never get something done. My frustration is actually tenacity. And so it is a frustration of mine. And like, no, I'm never gonna be like love checking the boxes off because that's not who I am. But I think as a builder and a doer, you actually have to learn to develop the balance across those. So even though tenacity is a frustration, I understand it's a frustration, but I also understand sometimes you just gotta put your head down and get it done, right? And so then it's building that grit to say, I don't enjoy doing this necessarily, but I have to go do it and get it done. And so I think entrepreneurs, by default, just the real builders have a level of grit to be able to persevere through the things that maybe are their frustrations and are there and are willing to go develop the frustrations. And that's the thing. Like people are like, how is tenacity a frustration of yours? You went and studied for the CPA exam, you got it. Like that's tenacity to no end, you know, five tests over 18 months, like go through and grind through getting the test done. It's like, yeah, but I'm willing to, I know it's a frustration. I'm willing to say, hey, I'm not gonna enjoy this, but I'm willing to go do it anyways for the good of the better. And I think that's really what sets a builder apart. It's not that, well, hey, I can, because I can go dream with the best of them, right? But I'm also willing to go through and say, what does it take to make this a reality and go put the work in necessary? And so I think that's the piece where if we only lean to what we enjoy doing or our frustrations, or I mean what we enjoy doing or what we're good at doing, we're probably always going to just be a dreamer. So to be a builder, you have to really embrace those things that sometimes are your frustration or you're not good at. Say, I'm just gonna go embrace those, and I know I may not enjoy it, but by doing that, we'll have the better outcome.