Dan Kennedy And The Truth About Quitting
The Ultimate Lead Generation Machine
By Dan Kennedy
My father told me that the reason doctors whack babies on the ass immediately after they
are born is to communicate a fundamental truth they need to know to...
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Dan Kennedy And The Truth About Quitting
The Ultimate Lead Generation Machine
By Dan Kennedy
My father told me that the reason doctors whack babies on the ass immediately after they
are born is to communicate a fundamental truth they need to know to survive: outside the
womb, life is tough.
(Do doctors still do this? I don’t know.
I’d guess not; today, it’d be
viewed as infant abuse and threatening to the tiny soul’s fragile self-esteem, like, say,
playing dodge ball and keeping score a bit later in life.
But in 1954, the year of my birth,
the Doc at Deaconess Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio delivered that whack.
)
Everybody is presented with countless opportunities to quit.
We stumble into places
far most hostile than we anticipated – my daughter’s full term in the Peace Corps, in some
godforsaken jungle with rats on her tin she’s roof, peeing through gaps, that leaps to mind.
We sign on for things that quickly seem more challenging and difficult than we’d hoped for
– maybe putting t
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