Bill Hybels, who founded the largest church in America, said:

“Most people look at what’s wrong in the world – some injustice, some screwed-up thing that desperately needs to be fixed – and they get REALLY MAD.

“Then they say to themselves, ‘This is making me tired. I think I’m just going to medicate it with a movie.’

“They watch their movie. And that’s pretty much the end of that.

“But true leaders transform that dissatisfaction into fuel that drives them forward. THAT is your Holy Discontent.”

What is YOUR Holy Discontent?

For my wife, it’s all the kids in orphanages around the world that need families.

For me it’s a range of tragedies, from rudderless entrepreneurs armed with plastic swords and helmets, to apathetic masses watching TV, to institutions segregating knowledge into narrow silos that aren’t permitted to talk to each other. It’s my hunger for a second Renaissance, 500 years after the first one.

(That’s why I call it my “New Renaissance Newsletter.”)

Your Holy Discontent is KEY to being an influential writer. You can’t move the masses from your couch in front of the TV. Those who medicate their sorrows by watching a movie cannot and will not change the world. Their voice will not be heard above the din.

About the Author

Perry Marshall has launched two revolutions in sales and marketing. In Pay-Per-Click advertising, he pioneered best practices and wrote the world's best selling book on Google advertising. And he's driven the 80/20 Principle deeper than any other author, creating a new movement in business.

He is referenced across the Internet and by Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, INC and Forbes Magazine.