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#205 Rob Fraser: How an Elite Athlete Built a $10M Business Breaking Every Rule

2024/10/15
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Rob Fraser：我的成功秘诀在于拥有清晰的个人使命感，这驱动我克服职业生涯中的各种挑战，并在创业过程中坚持不懈。我将竞技体育中积累的韧性、执行力和人际交往能力成功地运用到商业领域。我从不追求捷径，而是专注于长期发展，并从失败中吸取宝贵的经验教训。我的童年经历充满挫折，这反而激发了我全力以赴、争取成功的动力。我将创业视为一项新的挑战，并全身心地投入其中。 Shane Parrish: (访谈引导，问题总结，未形成核心论点)

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Rob Fraser discusses the challenges of transitioning from a professional athlete to an entrepreneur, highlighting the loss of identity and the ensuing period of uncertainty and self-discovery that followed his retirement.
  • Loss of identity after retiring from professional sports.
  • A period of uncertainty and questioning one's future after a successful sports career.
  • The difficulty of reinventing oneself and building a new network after a career change.

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Rob Fraser unveils the untold story of OUTWAY—from hawking socks on street corners to building an eight-figure empire. Surviving near-catastrophic business crises, he leveraged lessons from his professional sports career to navigate the business world. Discover the counterintuitive mental models that transformed a world-class athlete into a business maverick, turning the humble sock into a ten-million-dollar revolution.

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