Why Being Misunderstood Is Part of Building Something Great

Have you ever felt like nobody truly understands your dreams? That chasing greatness makes you a target for criticism, doubt, and fear—even from the people closest to you? This week, I’m here to tell you that’s part of the process—and why it’s not only okay but necessary to keep going. In this episode, I unpack why the path to success requires accepting being misunderstood. I share the power of resilience, the lessons from setbacks, and why lasting longer than others is often the key to victory. Whether it’s critics trying to dim your light or even moments of doubt about the person you’re becoming, I’ll remind you how to stay anchored in your purpose. I share personal stories about overcoming dream stealers, dealing with self-doubt, and learning to protect the vision in your heart—even when it feels like progress is invisible. And I’ll leave you with a powerful analogy that’ll change how you view persistence and the unseen progress you’re making every single day. You’re built for this. Your dreams are worth fighting for. It’s time to dig deeper, stay in the game, and make sure you’re there when the candy finally breaks free. Key Takeaways: Why being misunderstood is a sign you’re on the right track. How to handle critics—including those closest to you. The importance of resilience and lasting through the toughest moments. Why invisible progress matters and how to keep swinging for your dreams. A powerful story about persistence and the life-changing rewards of not quitting. Keep swinging. Keep believing. The candy’s coming—don’t stop before it does. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Ed Mylett?

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• 0:45Ed Mylett?

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• 1:29Ed Mylett?

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• 2:08Ed Mylett?

  This is the End Myron Show.

• 2:12Ed Mylett?

  All right, welcome back to the show, everybody. So excited that you've chosen to spend another week with me here. And thank you again. We just picked the number one show in the world in our categories because so many of you share the episodes every single week. And so I'm grateful to that. So let's talk about you this week. So listen, my friend, you're gonna have to start to be more okay with being misunderstood. See, if you're gonna do anything great in your life, just get ready, you're gonna be controversial, you're gonna have people not understand you, and one of the things that holds so many people back is them not being okay with people not understanding them. I know it affected me deeply for many, many years. I can't even tell you that it doesn't affect me at all anymore. But this idea that you're gonna do something great with

• 2:54Ed Mylett?

  your life, which is what you want to do, that's why you're listening to me today, and that you're not gonna have a bunch of people misunderstand you, frankly, take shots at you, and you're gonna be controversial. Anytime you try to change your stage in life, change your circumstances, just get ready. Here comes all the misunderstanding, here comes all the criticism, here comes all of the people who don't understand what's going on with you. And remember this saying, "The only difference between steam and ice is the state of vibration." And why do I say that to you upfront? Because when you start to get criticism, it's either gonna change this ice where it gets colder and colder, or it's gonna turn to steam because you heat up. You've

• 3:35Ed Mylett?

  gotta use the criticism you're getting, and the fact that you're misunderstood. And oftentimes, being misunderstood by the people closest to you as fuel, as steam, that heats you up to get after it, to maybe prove them wrong, or at least prove you right, or if anything in your life, is to just say, "You will not steal my dream." More people lose their dream to what I call "dream stealers" than any other thing. It's not failure, it's not setbacks, it's not adversity, it's dream stealers. It's the people around you who still think small, who are trying to get you to conform to their thinking, they're trying to project onto you. Their small worldview.

• 4:18Ed Mylett?

  They're settling because your progress makes them very uncomfortable. Because if you get too good, or you do too well, they're gonna have to take a look at themselves. And they don't ultimately want to do that. They also love you in many cases, and that's what makes it so hard, isn't it? When this criticism, this controversy, this misunderstanding, it could literally be the person you sleep next to every night. They just don't understand, why are you changing? Why are you growing? Why isn't what we have good enough? Why can't you just be happy? And I always say this to people. It's not that I'm unhappy, it's that I'm addicted to the expansion of my being. I don't want to live every year the same way. If God's gonna give me another year, I want it to be a new and increasing and better year than the previous one.

• 5:03Ed Mylett?

  There's gonna have to be a part of you at some point, my brother or sister, that you just need to accept you're a little different. This life of changing your life and increasing things and creating something and doing something great, it ain't for everybody. And it's for you, or you wouldn't have this dream in your heart. But someone around you is gonna try to steal your dream over and over and over again. You know, when I first started in business, I'm not gonna say who it was, because he's no longer here. And when it was not my dad, by the way, I should just be very clear of that. But I had a family member who was incredibly hard on me, both privately and then in front of my face. Hey, you make your first million yet? Hey, you make everything's good. Hey, you make your first million yet?

• 5:47Ed Mylett?

  Over and over. I knew he was making fun of me. I knew he was, and by the way, he knew me since I was a little boy, so he knew all my weird stuff. You know what I mean? Like, it's someone close to you, oh, look at this little guy, he's trying to be, you know, you know what happens. And it almost got me. He convinced me, I was ashamed almost, that I had a dream. I was almost embarrassed oftentimes when he would be around, that I had the audacity to think somehow I was gonna do something in my life. He immediately had the ability to pull me back to who I probably believed I really was at that time.

• 6:25Ed Mylett?

  These dream stealers have an ability to pull you back to the lowest possible version of yourself that you struggle with trying not to believe anymore. He would literally validate my greatest weaknesses and fears about myself.

• 6:41Ed Mylett?

  And it would literally feel like a actual punch in the stomach. I was not only down, but I almost felt embarrassed and ashamed that I was even trying. And I have to tell you that he almost got me many times. And by the way, he wasn't the only one. But I can also tell you, when I made it, it was so sweet. Cause I remember that final Thanksgiving, we were around and it was getting quiet and people were eating. He goes, so Eddie, did you make your first million yet? And I remember getting kinda quiet and letting everybody settle and everyone was, ooh. I said, actually I have. But you know what I've been wanting to ask you for like six years while you've been wearing me out? Have you? Have you?

• 7:26Ed Mylett?

  This whole time you've been criticizing me and you're twice as old as I am. Have you ever made your first million yet?

• 7:33Ed Mylett?

  And it got real quiet. And I gotta tell you something, that ain't the reason to make it to prove people wrong, but it feels damn good when you do. And so you're gonna have to accept that everything is gonna be hard before it gets easy. In fact, my, one of my favorite Chinese proverbs says exactly that. It says, everything must be hard before it can be easy. Proverbs 423 tells us, above all else, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it. I gotta tell you something, you're gonna have to protect your heart. You have to guard your beliefs. Remember this, success is gonna be harder than you think it is. There's gonna be more criticism and haters and you're gonna be more controversial and more misunderstood than you think. And it's probably going to take longer than you think.

• 8:15Ed Mylett?

  And with all of that being said, I can tell you, it's more worth it than you think. To do something great with your life, to say, man, I did it. I overcame it is one of the greatest feelings you'll ever have in your life. And I can tell you why I think that is. Because once you do win, I think you'll reach the conclusion that you didn't do it alone. And that God was with you the entire time. If anything's been a confirmation of my faith, to some extent, it's been the dark times that God's helped me get through. When people ask me on the show, so give me all of the keys to your success. Every week I come on here and I give you a key after key after key after key. And having said all of that, there are a ton of times where it's a blur to me. And all I can conclude is that I was so down that I stayed faithful, I stayed working hard.

• 9:00Ed Mylett?

  And that in those moments, God just picked me up and carried me for a while. And then I'd wake up again and he'd put me back down in a little bit better place. So of all the things I tell you, keys this, communication that, mindset this, think that, do this, routine, all of those things, it would never have been done without God and his favor and his blessing, his comfort, his supernatural understanding in my life.

• 9:23Ed Mylett?

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• 10:52Ed Mylett?

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• 11:27Ed Mylett?

  The other thing that's really hard to do, but you almost can do and you need to do, is to actually pray for those that criticize you. Pray for them. Pray for them because they think so small and they are so down on themselves that they've decided to take shots at you. And I know that sometimes it's the person you let lays next to you and they aren't trying to take shots at you. They're legitimately worried about you. You know, one thing I discovered when you're in a relationship with somebody and I'm not talking about your, it could be your friends as well. But one of the reasons that they're trying to pull you back is A, you're making them look at themselves. So they're going to project their small thoughts, small thinking onto you because it makes them uncomfortable about themselves. But here's the other thing.

• 12:12Ed Mylett?

  To some extent, deep, deep, deep down, they think you're leaving them. That as you begin to leave this former version of you and you grow and change, that you're going to leave them. And their greatest fear is that that's going to happen as your significant other or as your friend. She's going to leave. She's going to leave. She's going to become so successful and change so much that she's not going to want me anymore. Or he's not going to want me anymore. That could be your friends or that could be your significant other. And so know that that's actually, in my opinion, the place that it comes from most of the time is fear. Anytime someone's acting out angry or mean, it's usually coming from fear. And so you gotta ask yourself, what are they really afraid of?

• 12:55Ed Mylett?

  At the real root, if we get to the real bottom of it, what is this critic afraid of? They're either afraid that your light shining bright is going to somehow shine on them and people are going to notice the shadow that they're living in, the small place they're living in, or they're afraid you're leaving. And so if you can get into pray for them almost, it'll flip the script. Luke 6 verse 28 says, Jesus says to bless those who curse you, pray for those who hurt you. And that's not an easy thing to do.

• 13:24Ed Mylett?

  But I recommend you do it, and you gotta be ready for it. In fact, if you don't have any critics right now, if you're not controversial at all, if you don't have any haters, if you don't have anybody putting you down or trying to pull you back, or wondering what the heck's going on with you as you change, you're probably not doing anything great in your life. In fact, it's one of the leading indicators, you're doing something. You're doing something right, you've got some critics, you're controversial. I could tell you this, and by the way, it doesn't end. Then, once you make it, they'll have other critics, "Oh, you've changed." It doesn't end, so at some point, you have to decide you're okay with being misunderstood. You can't constantly be... For me, there's one rule in my life. When someone's wondering what I'm doing, I'll explain it to you once, and then after that, "It's not my job you don't understand."

• 14:06Ed Mylett?

  You do get one grace, you get one blessing, you get one explanation, but I'm not doing this over and over and over again with you. It takes your energy, it's toxic, it distracts you. To do something great with your life requires laser obsessive focus, and if you've gotta deal with this other person not understanding you, you gotta give it to them once, and after that, and I tell them that, "Listen, I totally understand, it's a fair question, let me explain this to you, but I want you to listen close, because I'm only doing this one time." And, and let me say this to you also. If this controversial thing takes you off your dream, you were gonna lose anyway. Because imagine the real rejection. When you actually lose the account, when something doesn't go well,

• 14:50Ed Mylett?

  when an absolute disaster takes place, when a crisis happens, over and over and over again. The first time you get slammed to the ground on your dream, or the 18th time. If a critic, or being controversial, or being misunderstood takes you off your dream, come on, something else is gonna get you anyway, so toughen up. And people ask me often, "Well, what if that person's the closest person to you? I need their support." You do? You lack so much motivation that you need theirs? I mean, think that one through for a second. It's just sort of this vogue thing to say, "How do I get my significant other to support me more?" Well, a lot of times, the answer to that is, win. You gotta go win. There's the truth of human beings. They may not share your vision. They may not get it. You may not have their support.

• 15:35Ed Mylett?

  And if you need it, you were probably going to lose anyway. Winning is difficult. The difference between winning and losing is so small, it's almost too scary to talk about. It's so small. It's millimeters. It's one move, one way or the other. Winning and losing is, I mean, it's tough. And so if not having support is gonna get you, what are you gonna do when a disaster takes place? Winning at the highest level, you gotta be mentally tough, resilient, built for this stuff. And if a critic, or a setback, or not being understood, that's gonna get you? Really? But you wanna be a millionaire? Or you wanna change the world? Or you wanna change your family tree forever?

• 16:18Ed Mylett?

  You gotta get a big enough vision that it drowns out the noise of this dumb dumb who's criticizing you, doesn't even get it. Right? And then you gotta last. You know, if you go after something for a year, you might lose. You know, people underestimate what they can do on the long term, and they overestimate what they can do in the short term. You take a 10-year, let's say you just started a business, or you're on a fitness journey, or a faith journey. But let's just take the business for a second. You decide, hey, I'm going at 10 years. You understand, at the end of one year, if 100 people started at the same time as you, 70 of them, 75 have already quit. After three years, 90, 95 of them have quit.

• 16:58Ed Mylett?

  After eight, nine years, one or two of you were left out of 100 people. Just lasting long-term and sticking around long enough gives you a chance of winning. You'd be amazed at how many people eventually give in, because it just gets tougher and tougher. So eventually, the price tag gets too high for most people, and they'll sell out their dream. Now, by the way, they won't call it selling out their dream. They'll come up with a story that softens the blow. Well, it wasn't for me, or this guy screwed me over, or this happened, or my partner wasn't ethical, or blah, blah, blah. They'll come up with some story as to why they quit on their dream. But someone who really wants it bad, who's gonna win, none of that stuff gets them off their dream.

• 17:43Ed Mylett?

  So there's no story you could tell, because at the end of it, it's just like, okay, whatever you just said, blah, blah, blah, blah, you quit on your dream. And if you're listening to this today and you go, yeah, you know what? I did quit on my dream. Well, that doesn't have to be permanent. You could use today's episode as a wake up call and go, you know what? He's right. I need to toughen up. You know what? It's not going to be worth it. Hey, what makes it worth it is how hard it is. What makes it worth it is proving that person wrong. What makes it worth it is you overcame and you grew and you pivoted and you evolved and you innovated. And you lasted. It wasn't going to work if it wasn't 10 years anyways, right? This idea of social media, day and age, everything's fast and this and I made this and everyone's 23 and in the Caribbean.

• 18:26Ed Mylett?

  That's not how life works. It's a long grind and it's totally worth it because it's not about where you get. It's about who you become in the process of getting there. And when you quit, you'll never meet that person. The hard part of quitting is not this that you lost your dream. That's bad. Worse is you're never going to meet the man or woman you could have been had you pursued it. Cause I could tell you, the house, the car, the jet, all of that, it's not what you think it will be, but you need to go get it because it's still pretty good, but it's not what you think it'll be. But what is even way better than you think it will be is who you become in the process of getting there and being proud of you. And I could tell you, the things you'd be most proud of is the fact that you lasted,

• 19:08Ed Mylett?

  is the fact that you got up after you quit, is the fact that you go, you know what? I did quit, but I'm getting back. I'm getting back up. I lasted. I'm tough. I'm resilient. I'm mentally tough. I innovated. I pivoted. I improved. I grew. I fought. I clawed. I competed. I won. That's way better than you think it is. It's way better. That, that beach house you think you want, it ain't the house. It's sitting in the backyard going, man. Remember that? When I almost quit? Remember that time I was down for a while? Remember when that person said this? Remember when that controversy? Man, that one would have knocked anybody. Remember when that person stole from me? Remember when that person did this to me? Just so you know, everything you think probably bad will happen,

• 19:53Ed Mylett?

  probably will and worse. And that's what makes it so sweet when you last.

• 20:00Ed Mylett?

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• 20:45Ed Mylett?

  Download the Quince app for app exclusive offers or go to quince.com/ed for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. Now available in Canada and the UK too. That's Q U I N C E dot com slash ed. And by the way, this whole thing about people being misunderstanding you? Let me say this to you. You know who may be at the top of that list eventually as you grow and change? Who misunderstands you? You. As a friend, let me say something that happens once we start to get a little bit ahead in life. In the beginning, it's going to be friends and family that misunderstands you. But once you make some progress, you can begin to misunderstand you. Once you get a little bit down the road, you're like, well, wait a minute.

• 21:30Ed Mylett?

  This isn't me. This isn't what it was cracked up to be. I don't know that I like. And what happens is you begin to question you. You do. It's very natural. When you're changing and growing and becoming somebody you're unfamiliar with, it's very natural to not understand this person you're becoming. One of the most important things I've ever said on the show that, and I put it in the middle of this episode, I hope that you share this.

• 21:55Ed Mylett?

  But one of the mind games that happens is you actually make progress. Once you do is you misunderstanding you because you're unfamiliar with this new person. And this person who's growing and changing, they're not a finished product yet. So there may actually be some things about you that you like less for a while. Sometimes you have to be so laser focused and mentally tough for windows of time that it even scares you. Or you do go, am I, am I too far down this road and leaving the other one? And so this new person you become is so unfamiliar to you. That our natural tendency is to want to go back to being the person we were before.

• 22:36Ed Mylett?

  Or to shrink our dream smaller because that one's easier to get and we could see that one now. But this bigger one, or the one that keeps getting bigger. We don't understand it. We don't understand us. This person we're becoming, we're not familiar with. And so you may for a while become somebody you don't like for a short term. And that's just because you're not familiar with them, or that time requires parts of your personality. Parts of you that it won't require once you get there. There's a relentlessness that comes with being successful. A mental toughness, almost a shell you put around yourself to some extent.

• 23:17Ed Mylett?

  That is unfamiliar for most of us that are not that way right now. And so I do want to tell you as a friend, no one's probably ever said this on any episode. There's a part of the journey that costs most people is not the other people who misunderstand them, but it's yourself. Cause you've actually started to turn into this person you weren't before. And that person's like any adolescent becoming a new person, there's rough edges around them. And you gotta give that person some grace and know that. There's no way you're gonna make your dream come true until you evolve to be the ultimate version of you anyway, but that evolution can be awkward. Think about any teenager you know that goes from being this kind, sweet, young person, and as they grow into adolescence, they change, they're rough around the edges, they experiment, they make mistakes, there's

• 24:02Ed Mylett?

  parts of them that are developing, and then hopefully eventually they land on becoming a person that you and they are proud of. As you grow in business, and I'm not talking about doing anything unethical, what I'm saying is that there's parts of you that weren't there before that have to develop for you to win, and when those things develop, if you're not familiar with that person, and you're not, it can feel like it's not you. And our tendency is to want to go back to who we used to be. You'll always keep your character, you'll always be ethical, you'll always make the right decisions. I'm not talking about those things. I'm saying elements of you evolve. And some of those elements are only short-term to get you through that stage of your life. Accept that, give yourself grace, knowing that you're becoming the ultimate version of you. Really important

• 24:44Ed Mylett?

  thing that I just told you. You may be the one who misunderstands you, once you overcome the people closest to you misunderstanding you. There's so many things on your journeys to success, they're gonna try to get you to go back, or to shrink, or to conform, or to settle down, or to just kind of settle or slow down. And I want you to know that that's part of growth. You're gonna have parts of you that you weren't knowing before that you're now meeting for the first time. That person was always there, you're just tapping into them now. And so, please don't give in or succumb to the idea of shrinking to please other people. Shrinking so that you're comfortable with yourself. Shrinking you or your dream doesn't serve the world. You were born to do something great, whatever

• 25:27Ed Mylett?

  that means to you in your life. This is the real stuff today, everybody. Like, this is the real, real. You know, the last thing I'll tell you is you gotta last. I told this story in one of my books, but about two weeks ago, we got invited to a six-year-old's birthday party and it got rained out, so we didn't get a chance to go. But it made me think about one that we had went to many, many years ago. And I've shared this in my book, but I want to share it with you now as kind of the final story today. This birthday party, they had a pinata for the kids and the little boy whose birthday party it was, I'll never forget this, they blindfolded him and spun him around. Any of you that's ever been to a pinata party? And they gave him this bat and he just starts swinging into the air, you know, missing everything. And to some extent, that's such a great analogy for what it's like to start out and pursuing

• 26:12Ed Mylett?

  your vision and your dream. You kind of learn a little bit, but you're blindfolded, they give you the baton, you just start swinging and you're not even close to the target, right? That's kind of like the beginning journey. And so finally, the dad grabbed him and pointed him right at the pinata and he hit this pinata just over and over and over. And he was getting tired and discouraged because no candy came out. And eventually quit, took his blindfold off and ran over to the swing set. And then they grabbed another little guy and they put the blindfold on him, gave him the baton, spun him around, he's swinging, missing everything. Then they lined him up and he hit the pinata for a long time and no candy came out. And he lost his patience and his, you know, tolerance for it and he left.

• 26:57Ed Mylett?

  Then they gave it to this little girl and she hit it. So anyway, they went through all the kids, about seven kids, all of them hitting this pinata and all of them quit. And then the last little boy, the smallest boy there, the little brother, they gave him the baton and the blindfold and he went up and hit the baton, one swing and not even a very powerful swing. And the pinata broke and all the candy came out and all the kids came running from all over the playground and they're all jumping on and getting the candy and celebrating. Little Jacob had broken open the pinata with one shot.

• 27:35Ed Mylett?

  Let me ask you a question. Was it Jacob's shot that broke open that pinata? Or was it the cumulative shots from everybody throughout the entire pinata experience? You know the answer. It was the cumulative shots of hitting that pinata over and over and again. Jacob just made the final shot. What was happening was progress was being made breaking down that pinata, but you couldn't see it. It was invisible progress. Nobody could see it. It didn't look like anything was happening. Shot after shot, swing after swing. People getting tired, people quitting, people getting discouraged, all these little kids. But what they didn't know was each one of those shots, even though they couldn't see it,

• 28:16Ed Mylett?

  was breaking down the pinata and they were getting one step closer to all of the candy. But they all quit. And that's what happens for most people in life. That 10 years, people hit the pinata, hit the pinata, hit the pinata, and eventually, because they don't see progress, quit. Not knowing they were making invisible progress. There's something called compound pounding. When you hit something over and over again and pursue it over and over and over again, you are breaking it down. It's compounding of the pounding you're making. It's breaking it down over time, even though you can't see visual evidence of it. And so that's how your dream will be as well. Most people will quit before the candy comes out of their dream.

• 28:59Ed Mylett?

  Before all of the money comes out, all of the dreams, all of the emotions, all of the relationships, all of the pride. They will quit because they don't see progress on the pinata of their life. And many of them quit one swing away. And so my challenge to you is to last. When everybody quits over those 10 years, they're not understood, then they don't understand themselves, is that you keep swinging because you're making more progress than you think. It may not be visible, you may not see it, everybody around you may not see it, but every single swing is compound pounding, getting you closer to your dream and your vision of your life. And most human beings, the sad part of their life is, they quit before the candy comes

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  out, and they're often quit much closer to the candy than they think they are. My challenge to you is keep swinging away so that your loved ones, your family, even the ones who don't understand you, can celebrate when all the candy comes out, and you can be there for your family and make their dreams come true as well, even though they didn't get it in the beginning. Whether you like it or not, you're the person who's supposed to bring the candy to your family. That's why you've got this dream in your heart. That's why you're who you are. You're built for this. Keep swinging and wait till that candy comes out, because it's going to someday. And all these people who don't get it that are around you, they'll come running to celebrate to get their piece of the candy. All right, everybody. God bless you. You're gonna share this one. Max out.

• 30:25Ed Mylett?

  This is The Ed Miliband Show.