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Turning the Impossible Into the Imaginable Into the Actual
Success motivation from Iran’s answer to Jordan Peterson
“If the impossible throughout history has become the imaginable, and then the actual, why do we think that our dreams are impossible for us to accomplish in our own lives?”
-Patrick Bet-David
Patrick Bet-David’s amazing story starts with his family immigrating to America when he was 10 years old. His parents fled Iran as refugees during the Iranian revolution and were eventually granted U.S. citizenship, something that Patrick has never since taken for granted.
Today, his YouTube channel has more than 3,000,000 subscribers and he runs one of the largest financial services companies in the entire U.S.
That level of success — especially for embattled refugees — is usually regarded as impossible.
The thing is that the impossible has never been done before.
Instead, what many people have believed was impossible had always been possible…we just couldn’t see it.
I won’t rehash the entire Roger Bannister story (readers of pop psychology books are already deathly tired of hearing about it), but the super short version is that there was a time when nobody believed it was possible for human beings to run a mile in under…
