Episode Details

Starting up is always rough—and especially when you're a small business that at first has no clients and no credibility. In this episode, 5000bc member, Christopher Cook talks to Sean D'Souza about how to get over the inner chatter. How to get past those starting blocks and whether it's possible to be superhuman.

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In this episode Sean talks about

Part 1: Why Roadblocks Are Universal Part 2: Why Talent Is Not Inborn Part 3: How To Successfully Get Rid of Self-Doubt

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The Transcript

This is indeed The 3 Month Vacation and I'm Sean D'Souza.

Back in the year 2000, I was still a cartoonist and I was doing both cartooning and marketing at the same time.

At that point, I decided that I wanted to be the best in the world at marketing, but that meant that I had to start up. I had to start up all over again. I don't know much about marketing. I hadn't read that many marketing books and this whole factor of starting up was hard enough just as a business. I was also new at New Zealand. I just moved in from India and so it was like a double start up.

Often people ask me this question, "How did you manage? What was the start up like? Does this internet marketing thing work just for some people and not for others? These are the questions that Christopher C was asking me and this interview is about that. It's about debt start up, the obstacles. It's a whole bunch of questions that Christopher C decided, "Let him answer it," so here I am answering it.

Interestingly, as I was going through this whole interview and listening to it, it seemed like almost a compellation of many of the podcasts that I have done before. We're covering topics like roadblocks and mindset and routine and you probably heard it before. It's just a different version of it you could say. It's on Skype, but it's still live and we started out with roadblocks. Christopher asked me what the roadblocks are, what do I see as roadblocks in day-to-day life.

The thing with roadblocks is that most people think that it only happens to them and it's not true at all.

Part 1:Why Roadblocks Are Universal

The first thing is that roadblocks are universal. They don't care about you and don't care about me. Their only real purpose in life is to teach you a lesson. When people don't learn the lesson the roadblocks pop up again and again and again. When you learn that lesson, they disappear and other roadblocks show up. If you don't deal with the roadblocks in the first instance, they pile up and they become bigger and bigger and bigger and that's the part that people don't get. They think that somehow the roadblock is going to disappear and it doesn't disappear. It's there specifically t