How Challenges Shape Who We Become

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with Chad Sanschagrin, best-selling author of Keep Telling Yourself and founder of Cannonball Moments, to talk about resilience, purpose, and what it means to honor life’s defining moments. We discuss the power of the meaning we give to our past, how struggle shapes our success, and why avoiding hardship only limits growth. Chad shares his perspective on loss, perseverance, and the lessons that come from facing adversity head-on. We also reflect on the importance of showing up in difficult times and how staying committed to purpose is the greatest tribute we can give to those who shaped us.

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0:00.0	Anybody seen the movie, the Bob Marley movie?
0:02.1	I'm a huge Bob Marley fan.
0:04.0	My favorite scene in Bob Marley movie is when, after he got shot, he's like, why would
0:10.5	they try to kill me?
0:13.0	And he said, oh no, the question is, why didn't they succeed?
0:18.0	And then he said, I'm just the messenger.
0:23.5	No, you're the message.
0:30.0	And so I think as I ask those questions, I don't ever see myself as the messenger.
0:35.9	I'm the message at my essence in the difficult time. And everything goes back to this power that we're given to give meaning to everything that we seek.
0:42.0	And the limitation of the meaning that you give your past will limit you from your self-image
0:46.7	and your self-imagination.
0:48.5	You'll never overachieve that.
0:50.6	And so in essence, if we don't take the time to ask the four questions or create our
0:56.6	own questions to give a different meaning and take the time to align the meaning with the divine,
1:03.3	the divine direction, or the divine detour, or divine time. Those are the three for me, frameworks in which I say is my meaning I'm giving my past,
1:14.5	not just the failures, but the successes, defining moments, historical relevances,
1:19.6	all of these different things, the shortage, voids, mistakes,
1:23.9	is it aligned with my divine direction where I think I want to be or better in divine detour?
1:32.1	No evidence, evidence contrary.
1:34.3	That's a detour.
1:35.8	All my activities, my intention shows me no evidence or contrary evidence to where I want to be or better.
1:42.0	And does that meaning align with my divine time?
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