Your deepest passion is yours alone, and what lights others up may leave you completely cold. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller explore why every entrepreneur is born unique, how your experiences continually shape that uniqueness, and how doubling down on it leads to greater freedom, happiness, and business success.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

How to strengthen and continually reinforce your passion.
What actually grows and develops your uniqueness every day.
What gets created when two people collaborate.
How AI is multiplying individuality and adding even more variety to the world.

Show Notes:

Every person is born with a Unique Ability^®, and that’s the central starting point for all Strategic Coach^® thinking.

Your entire life is a process of navigating and giving meaning to the uniqueness of your own experience.

As an individual, you are constantly reinforcing a central set of interests and capabilities through every experience you choose.

When you go deep with anyone, you quickly discover they’re far more unique than you initially assumed.

Hundreds of times a day, you’re sorting experiences into “more of this, less of that,” steadily clarifying what matters most to you.

Entrepreneurs are the people who have bet the most on the thing they’re uniquely and intensely interested in.

To operate in the world, everyone has to learn a basic level of conformity—showing up, keeping promises, and finishing what they start.

Thanks to technology, individuals now have more freedom than ever to pursue and deepen their own interests.

Whatever someone is passionate about becomes the center of their universe, and they keep reinforcing it by seeking aligned experiences.

You’re always looking for experiences that make your passion and Unique Ability even more central and valuable in your life.

Powerful collaboration happens when people find shared interests where each can bring their own Unique Ability to create a “third thing” together.

Resources:

Unique Ability^®

Perplexity

Who Not How by Dan Sullivan with Dr. Benjamin Hardy

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