
John C. Maxwell Says Your Response to Failure Is the Only Thing That Actually Matters
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John C. Maxwell has written 92 books, sold tens of millions of copies, and at 79 years old still wakes up at 4:30AM without an alarm. He says it is not discipline. It is anticipation.
In this conversation we get into everything. Why he felt special at age four sitting alone in his backyard. The fifth grade teacher who changed his life by telling him he was a leader. How he got four girls to do all his homework from seventh grade through high school. Why his father paid him to read books instead of doing chores, and how that dinner table habit put him decades ahead of his peers. The exact moment a mentor told him to write for people he would never meet, which became the foundation of every book he has ever written. Why he is a growth person, not a goal person, and why goal setters plateau while growth minded people never stop. His personal definition of success at age 35 that still anchors him at 79. What a billionaire said about failure that became the seed of his 92nd book, How to Get a Return on Your Failure. Why success and failure belong together and what happens when you separate them. The pilot story that saved his life and taught him why anticipating failure is not pessimism but wisdom. And why he says if you don't give when you have a little you will not give when you have a lot.
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