"As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big"
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The subtext is classic Trump-era deal psychology: confidence is not just internal; it's a negotiating tool. If you telegraph that your aims are maximal, you shift the terms of the room. Big goals justify big asks, big headlines, big forgiveness for failure. There's also a quiet insulation against critique. If the standard is boldness, skeptics can be dismissed as small-minded, risk-averse, jealous, or simply not built for the arena.
Context matters: coming from a businessman-turned-celebrity, the advice isn't about private cognition but public posture. It's motivational copy that doubles as ethos, aligning with the late-20th-century American faith in growth, real estate scale, and winner-take-all markets. "Think big" flatters the listener into imagining themselves as a player, while also normalizing the idea that success is mostly an attitude problem. It's inspiring on purpose, but also revealing: the world is a scoreboard, and the mind is where you start running up points.
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