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Wayne Gretzky - "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Podcasthero.com Welcome to The Daily Quote, the podcast
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  designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and this podcast is brought to
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  you by the Great News Podcast. Tired of all the doom and gloom
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  Find it in your favorite podcast app.
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  But just to make it easy for you, link is in the show notes.
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  And on that note, let's jump into today's quote from Wayne
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  Gretzky, known as The Great One and the greatest hockey player
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  in history. He once said you miss 100% of
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  the shots you don't take. Well, that's pretty obvious,
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  isn't it? 100% Not some, not most.
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  Every single one. Why?
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  Because you never took it in the first place.
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  Think about what Wayne Gretzky is saying here.
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  When you don't try, your success rate is 0, guaranteed.
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  When you do take a shot, you might miss, you might fail, but
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  you also might succeed. And that possibility, that
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  chance, only exists when you take the shot.
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  Gretzky scored 894 career goals, the most in NHL history.
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  But you know what else? He missed thousands of shots,
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  probably 10s of thousands. But he kept shooting because he
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  understood the shots you don't take have a 0% success rate.
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  The shots you do take? Some percentage greater than 0.
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  And that's all you need, a chance.
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  Most people don't fail because they try and miss.
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  They fail because they never take the shot in the 1st place.
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  They don't ask for the opportunity, they don't apply
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  for the job and they don't start that business.
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  They don't make the calls that they need to make.
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  They don't take the necessary risk.
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  And then they wonder why nothing ever happens, why they're stuck,
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  why their life doesn't change. Gretzky's answer is simple.
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  Because you're not taking shots. The shot might miss.
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  Actually, it probably will. Most shots do.
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  But 100% of the shots you don't take definitely miss.
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  So take one shot, ask the question, make the call, apply
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  for the thing, Start the project, take the risk.
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  Because the only way to guarantee failure is to not try
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  it all. So here's the question.
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  What shot aren't you taking right now?
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  What opportunity are you avoiding because you might miss?
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  And remember, you're guaranteed to miss the shots you don't
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  take. Taking it just gives you a
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  chance. Take the shot, see what happens.
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  That's it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.