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Peak PerformanceHow a master of motivation changed his business . . . and his life
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Most people find their pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. DanBrattland found his at the end of a neighbor's driveway-past aferocious, snarling dog.
It was 1979, and Brattland, then 17, was going door-to-door inBloomington, Minnesota, asking neighbors if they would pay him tosealcoat their driveway. "One guy had a long driveway, with adog at the end of it-a big, mean dog," recalls Colin Sievers,Brattland's partner in that long-ago enterprise. "I said,'Dan, let's go to the house next door.' But Dan said,'No.' "
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