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Be Willing to Suck: The Key to Rapid Improvement
Description
When starting something new in business (sales, leadership, outreach, or growth strategies), have you ever caught yourself thinking, "I need to figure everything out before I try this" or "I don't want to look bad if I'm not good at it yet"
In this episode of the #DoorGrowShow, property management growth experts Jason and Sarah Hull explore why every entrepreneur begins at what they call "Level Suck." They discuss why many business owners resist feedback, avoid practicing in front of others, and stay stuck repeating the same actions instead of improving through experimentation.
Jason and Sarah break down how humility, rapid testing, and consistent feedback are the real drivers of mastery, and why the fastest way to grow is to be willing to start imperfectly and get better through iteration.
You'll Learn
(02:05) Practicing New Skills and Getting Feedback
(06:10) Ego, Humility, and Why Growth Requires Both
(10:30) Sales Mastery: Volume, Testing, and Iteration
(15:10) What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Children
Quotables"Anything new that you start with, you're not going to be amazing at it right away."
"This is the worst that you're ever going to be."
"It doesn't mean that you're bad. It just means that the test failed."
Resources TranscriptJason & Sarah Hull (00:01)
Five, four, three, two, one. All right. I am Jason Hull. This is Sarah Hull, the owners of DoorGrow, the world's leading and most comprehensive coaching and consulting firm for long-term residential property management entrepreneurs. For over a decade and a half, we have brought innovative strategies and optimization to the property management industry. At DoorGrow, we are on a mission to transform property management business owners and their businesses. We want to transform the industry.
eliminate the BS, build awareness, change perception, expand the market, and help the best property management entrepreneurs win. Now, let's get into the show. Today's episode, what we're going to be talking about, our topic is, we all start at level suck. All right. Where do we start? We'll get rid of this. level suck. I'm sucking right now, I guess. Here's a good example. Okay, we all start at level suck.
Anything new that you start with, you're not going to be amazing at it right away. And a lot of times we don't even want to start because we want to figure everything out first. want to figure out how to be amazing already because we don't want to fail or look bad or not know what we're doing. And so most people are unwilling to fail. And one thing I've noticed about children is children just try stuff. They just do shit. They just want like they'll just
play and it's experimentation and it's fun and they learn incredibly fast what works and what doesn't work. so a lot of a lot of people don't don't act like children in that way. And so we've this is one of the things we coach clients on is be willing to suck. So that's the topic today. So we've been teaching BDM. So what are we noticing? Well, today was the first time that they actually got to practice.
and role play. they weren't that bad, actually. It's not like they started at suck. The first time they looked at the script. Yeah. But for the first time ever say