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The number one reason ideas and small businesses fail isn't due to economic impacts but by failing to stay hungry. Complacency, other needs and the attitude that things are fine is what stops or causes most ideas, dreams and businesses to die.

In this video, former Chicago White Sox player Eric Soderholm talks at the Chamber630 event in DuPage County, Illinois about lessons learned on and off the field and how they change your attitude.