You're Not Behind. You're Just Still in Park: Willie Blake on the 2% Rule and the Chains That Keep You Hiding

What if you're not behind — you're just still in park? Coach Willie Blake was diagnosed with dyslexia in first grade and spent most of his life believing he was broken. He hid it, doubled his workload to reach average, and chased perfection to cover the gap. Then at 21 he found a statistic — 95% of CEOs read fifty or more books a year — and picked up a small purple book he could barely get through. He's since spoken from over 500 stages, hosts the podcast Light Beyond Limits, and coaches professionals and entrepreneurs out of self-doubt and into momentum. What we get into: The moment the story flipped: not dyslexia is bad, but what if the wiring is the advantage? Why "I don't know" stops your thinking dead — and the single word that reopens it The two chains Willie sees most: not knowing, and caring what they think Why exposure, not time, is what actually shifts a fear — start with one friend and a screen The 2% Rule — and why, if the step still feels too big, you haven't broken it down far enough Why the perfect plan from ChatGPT is worth nothing if the car never leaves park Building irrefutable evidence that you are who you say you are Why nobody has ever seen a Fortune 500 company with one employee Plus — Shaun on hiding behind admin, hiding behind free advice, hiding behind the shoulds, and how Elon Musk breaking a car company down to the price of copper is the 2% Rule wearing a suit. Find Willie: his free guide Break Free: 12 Chains That Hold Us Back & How to Shatter Them is at coachwillieblake.com/breakfree, and his podcast Light Beyond Limits is wherever you're listening to this. Go deeper: my free guide Go Three Levels Deep → zenright.com.au/go-three-levels-deep