Trent Hiott

Dad | Husband | Entrepreneur

[Trent Hiott @Trent_Hiott]

Watch how most people talk about their future:

me → my → mine → I

Now watch the ones who actually pull ahead:

them → they → who else → how do I serve

Adversity doesn't exist to toughen you. It exists to expand how much you can carry for other people.

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What had to die before anything moved:

needing to be right → gone
calling discomfort a catastrophe → gone
mistaking comfort for progress → gone
the plan I was too proud to drop → gone
who I was at 25 → gone

None of it went quietly.

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The story we're sold:

adversity → the devil → punishment → survive it

What I've come to believe:

adversity → God → curriculum → become someone who can carry more

Nobody gets handed a weight heavier than what they asked to be able to lift.

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The first setback → the hardest one you'll ever face

Not because it's the biggest:

setback 1 → zero tools
setback 2 → one tool s
etback 10 → a toolbox
setback 40 → you barely flinch

Same size problem. Different size person.

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3 questions, in order:

where am I going →
why does it matter to anyone but me →
who do I have to become

Most people: answer 1 → skip 2 → never touch 3

That's the whole story.

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Goal A → then what?
Goal B → then what?
Goal C → then what?

You don't arrive. The goal was never the point.

The person built on the way there was.

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How to become the person who can actually handle what you're asking for:

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small version → handled → large version → earned

Until you can carry the small one, you're not equipped for the large one.

[Trent Hiott @Trent_Hiott]

It's not willpower. It's won't power.

Willpower → what you'll add

Won't power → what you'll bury

Everyone I've watched make it wasn't stronger.

They were subtractive.

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The current version of you has to die.

Not "improve." Not "optimize." → Die.

Because the thing you want is only solvable by a person who doesn't exist yet.

And that person can't be born while you're still standing there.

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100s of times a day, you kill a version of yourself.

When you played it safe, you bet against the person who didn't.

When you sold, you bet against the person who held. You'll never meet either of them. ↓

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5% chance of rain. It rained. Was the forecast wrong?

Most people say yes. Most people are grading their entire life this way — and it's why they keep repeating bad calls over and over ↓

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I BET you do this!

Name the best decision you made this year — then watch what your brain actually did to pick it.
Almost nobody gets this right. ↓